ZANY
- to play the zany to [v ZANIED, ZANYING, ZANIES] / crazy or clownish [adj ZANIER, ZANIEST]
- is a person who acts like a buffoon to amuse others, or one who is generally foolish or eccentric.
- ludicrously comical [adj ZANIER, ZANIEST] : ZANILY [adv] / a zany person [n ZANIES]
- crazily funny
- a subordinate clown or acrobat in old comedies who mimics ludicrously the tricks of the principal merry-andrew
- slavish follower toady