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bozotic
/bohzohtik/ , /bohzotik/ , 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.