May 15, 2003

bozotic

/boh·zoh´tik/ or /boh·zo´tik/ adj.

[from the name of a TV clown even more losing than Ronald McDonald] Resembling or having the quality of a bozo; that is, clownish, ludicrously wrong, unintentionally humorous. Compare wonky, demented. Note that the noun ‘bozo’ occurs in slang, but the mainstream adjectival form would be ‘bozo-like’ or (in New England) ‘bozoish’.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:56 AM

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