antics

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Wild, silly, or attention-grabbing behaviour.

   The children laughed at the clown's antics.

Simplified etymology

Antics, recorded from the early 16th century, comes through Italian antico, “antique,” from the same Latin source as antiquity. The Italian word was used of grotesques, including the grinning faces carved on fashionable architecture, and from this the word came to denote grotesque behavior.

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