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Malarkey vs Buffoonery - What's the difference?

malarkey | buffoonery |

As nouns the difference between malarkey and buffoonery

is that malarkey is nonsense; rubbish while buffoonery is foolishness, silliness; the behaviour expected of a buffoon.

malarkey

English

Alternative forms

* mallarky * malarky * mullarkey

Noun

(-)
  • Nonsense; rubbish.
    • ''I decided it was a bunch of malarkey and stopped reading about halfway through.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    buffoonery

    English

    Noun

    (buffooneries)
  • foolishness, silliness; the behaviour expected of a buffoon.
  • * 1693 : William Congreve, The Old Bachelor
    • Araminta, come, I'll talk seriously to you now; could you but see with my eyes the buffoonery of one scene of address, a lover, set out with all his equipage and appurtenances; ...
  • * 1814 : Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
    • One could not expect anybody to take such a part. Nothing but buffoonery from beginning to end.
  • * before 1891 : P.T. Barnum, quoted in The Life of Phineas T. Barnum [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1576]
    • The Temperance Reform was too serious a matter for trifling jokes and buffooneries .