Clown vs Crone - What's the difference?
clown | crone |
A performance artist often associated with a circus and typically characterised by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig and who performs slapstick.
A person who acts in a silly fashion.
(UK) A stupid person.
(obsolete) A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor.
(obsolete) One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl.
* Cowper
(obsolete) An old woman.
* Dryden
An archetypal figure, a Wise Woman.
An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.
(obsolete) An old ewe.
(obsolete) An old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.
* Beaconsfield
* Washington Irving
As nouns the difference between clown and crone
is that clown is clown while crone is (wicca) one of the triune goddesses of the lady in wicca alongside the mother and maiden and representing an old woman.clown
English
Noun
(wikipedia clown) (en noun)- (Sir Philip Sidney)
- The clown , the child of nature, without guile.
Synonyms
* (performance artist working in a circus) * (person who acts in a silly fashion) buffoon, foolDerived terms
* clown doctor * clownfish * clownishDerived terms
* clown about (British) * clown aroundSee also
* coulrophobia * jester * jackpudding ----crone
English
Noun
(en noun)- But still the crone was constant to her note.
- (Tusser)
- A few old battered crones of office.
- The old crone [a negro man] lived in a hovel which his master had given him.
