Beshrew me, he clowns it properly indeed.
B. Jonson.
Clown"age (?), n. Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Clown"er*y (-&etilde;r*&ybreve;), n. Clownishness. L'Estrange.
Clown"ish, a. Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. "Clownish hands." Spenser. "Clownish mimic." Prior.
-- Clown"ish*ly, adv.
Syn. -- Coarse; rough; clumsy; awkward; ungainly; rude; uncivil; ill-bred; boorish; rustic; untutored.
Clown"ish*ness, n. The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior.
That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness.
Locke.
Cloy (kloi), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cloyed (kloid); p. pr. & vb. n. Cloying.] [OE. cloer to nail up, F. clouer, fr. OF. clo nail, F. clou, fr. L. clavus nail. Cf. 3d Clove.] 1. To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. [Obs.]
The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones.
Speed.
2. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.
[Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast?
Shak.
He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying.
Dryden.