balatron

plural balatrons

1. A buffoon; one who speaks a lot of nonsense and is characterized by self-indulgence.

   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

   3 more examples

   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

   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

   Anyone who discounts the peril is a self-important, arrogant balatron.

   2015, Peter N. Milligan, Bulls Before Breakfast, →ISBN, page 87