noun
1.
Synonyms: rustic , ||apple knocker, bucolic, bumpkin, clodhopper, hayseed, hick, hoosier, jake, rube
2.
Synonyms: boor , ||bosthoon, chuff, churl, clodhopper, grobian, mucker
3.
a performer (as in a circus) who entertains by grotesque appearance and actions
children delighted by the antics of the clowns
Synonyms: buffoon, harlequin, merry-andrew, zany
Related Word: comedian; fool, jester, mountebank; mime, mummer
4.
Synonyms: zany 2, cutup, farceur, joker, jokester, wag