clown
意味
- (サーカスなどの)道化,道化役[者]
- (集団の中の)おどけ者
- 道化役をする,おどける
例文
The clown at the circus pleased my children.
サーカスの道化師は子供たちを楽しませた。
When the little boy saw the clown, the cat got his tongue.
ピエロを見て少年は物が言えなくなってしまった。
They were all done up like clowns.
彼らはみな道化師みたいなかっこうをしていた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From earlier clowne, cloyne (“man of rustic or coarse manners, boor, peasant”); likely of North Germanic origin, akin to Icelandic klunni (“clumsy fellow, klutz”), Swedish kluns (“clumsy fellow”), all from Middle Low German klunz, from klunt (“pile, lump, something thick”); according to Pokorny, this could be related to a group of Germanic derivatives of Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up; amass”), such as Proto-West Germanic *klott (“lump”), Proto-Germanic *klūtaz (“clod, lump”), *kultaz (“lump, bundle”), etc.