clown world
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clown worlds
form: 🤡🌏
Etymology: Emerged from The Honkler, a version of the meme of Pepe the Frog, featuring a red clown nose and rainbow wig, characterized as honking a bicycle horn whenever liberals speak. The meme is associated with the use of honk honk ("HH"), a dog whistle for Heil Hitler.
Senses: examples: text: […] instead of the young boys growing up to be feminine, weak cry babies like they are in the modern ultra-liberal clown world they live in today.
ref: 2020 December 10, James Nicholls, How Uk Should Be, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
text: "Bloody idiots. But remember, this is an age when hurty feelings come above everything else, especially free speech. Sums up our stupid clownworld backward feminut times, eh?"
ref: 2020, P. J. Vanston, Somewhere in Europe, unnumbered page:
text: But he wasn't a chad. If you are not a chad you are literally an unperson in this clown world.
ref: 2021, anonymous, quoted in Martin Robinson, You Are Not the Man You Are Supposed to Be: Into the Chaos of Modern Masculinity, unnumbered page
glosses: The current absurd and irrational state of global society from the perspective of the alt-right movement.
examples: text: > negating the self centered aspect of your
> comment, it was through the resulting disagreement that this realization was
> able to come to fruition. In all honesty I'm exceptionally happy with how
> things turned out and I truly hope the best for her family.
Your crazy clown world has nothing to do with reality.
ref: 2000 October 24, ., “Chumley is a big fat idiot (part 2)”, in rec.arts.bodyart (Usenet), retrieved 14 Jan 2022:
text: The /pol/ or politically incorrect board at 4chan became an alt-right clown world.
ref: 2018 August 15, Christopher Othen, Soldiers of a Different God: How the Counter-Jihad Movement Created Mayhem, Murder and the Trump Presidency, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC:
text: The government was so top-heavy and bureaucratic that it created a circus show, a clown world where nothing worked as it was expected. It wasn't simply that there was waste and corruption everywhere. The most corrupted part of that life ...
ref: 2021 August 3, Zach Vorhies, Kent Heckenlively, Google Leaks: A Whistleblower's Exposé of Big Tech Censorship, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: A crazy world or environment.
examples: text: While he did not see these experiments as anti-textual, the most significant contribution to the clown world from the Copeau years was the development of modern French mime.
ref: 2003, Donald McManus, No Kidding!: Clown as Protagonist in Twentieth-Century Theatre, page 33:
text: This is a clown world, the openly theatrical world of the stage-clown, and not a world of masters and servants, despite the origin of the role being partly in imitation of a recognisable social type.
ref: 2013, Jon Davison, Clown: Readings in Theatre Practice, page 29:
text: He said that my essence was grotesque, that I would be a part of the clown world naturally, that I could organically belong to a circus or any other environment, because the grotesque is not limited to or contained in one genre – it has no boundaries.
ref: 2015, Slava Polunin, edited by David Bridel and Ezra Lebank, Clowns: In Conversation with Modern Masters, page 49:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see clown, world.
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