Name of an early TV clown, or a jerk

Usage examples of bozo.

He ended it with another growl that caused Bozo to ease back in his chair and give a sheepish grin.

Brodie was comparing his new lieutenant, Cliff Marsland, with the old, Bozo Griffin.

The single shot, though unexpected in this quiet neighborhood, had no aftermath until Bozo decided to give the next command.

If such were the case, the guilt must lie between Bozo Griffin and Cliff Marsland.

Cliff Marsland, strolling through the badlands with Bozo Griffin, had gained no suspicion whatever.

They strolled a block until they reached the front of the old hotel, where Brodie was to meet Bozo and Cliff.

With a contemptuous laugh, Brodie Brodan ordered Bozo Griffin to bring the prisoner along.

I refer to that waddling and bowlegged purple-furred monstrosity with a huge and faithful heart of purest cold, Bozo the othode.

I later sent a message to my friend back on Earth, informing him that we had seen Bozo and his mate, together with a litter of eight of the fattest, most adorable othode pups imaginable.

Bozo has gone back to the wild, with most of her litter, and Bozo, together with one of his male pups, feeling the need for human companionship again, now that the urge for domesticity had waned, took to haunting the gates of Shondakor, and finally deigned to join us in the palace as a pet of the entire court.

At any rate, my courtiers were already fond of Bozo-for it was none other than the faithful Bozo who had found the hidden door to Kuur, and because of his keen nose and hunting instinct, we found and crushed the dread and dangerous Mind Wizards.

While in the palace, Bozo sleeps wherever he likes, sometimes in the suite I share with my beloved Darloona, sometimes on hot nights in the cool gardens-but, more often than not, he chooses to share the little bed on which Taran sleeps when he is not on duty in the cadet barracks.

Taran found Koja with Bozo and Fido, returning from a spell of exercise in the palace gardens.

Taran who found Bozo and Edo, it was really Bozo and Fido who found Taran.

Now the pup repeated this sequence of actions, somewhat more clumsily and more gracelessly than had Bozo, but without accident.