[f. BUFFOON v. + -ING1.] The action of playing the buffoon; low jesting, buffoonery. Also attrib.
a. 1672. Wood, Life (1848), 43. Mirth … buffooning and bantering.
1811. Byron, Lett. to Mr. Dallas, 21 Aug. The two stanzas of a buffooning cast … are as well left out.
