Noun: balatron
| Singular | balatron |
| Plural | balatrons |
Sample Sentences
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If we are "students of the Balatronic dialect" — a dialect so called from the "Balatrons" or professional buffons who invented most of it — we shall perhaps refer to its users as: — "Blunderkins, having their heads stuffed with nought but balderdash. [1927, The Dalhousie Review - Volume 7, page 65:]
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His fat body shook like a balatron, as if his soul, biting for anger at a mouth inadequately circumferential, desired in vain to fret a passage through it. [1981, Alexander Theroux, Darconville's cat, page 32:]
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But he did not want to look a complete balatron in front of the Rabbi. [1990, Christopher Maslanka, The Guardian Book of Puzzles, →ISBN, page 52:]
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Anyone who discounts the peril is a self-important, arrogant balatron. [2015, Peter N. Milligan, Bulls Before Breakfast, →ISBN, page 87:]
Nouns inflected like balatron
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin balatrō (“jester, buffoon”). Cognate with Galician baladrón, Spanish baladrón, both meaning "braggart". See: Latin Nouns '
balatrō', Galician Nouns '
baladrón', Spanish Nouns '
baladrón'.