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   woebegone

   /ˈwəʊbɪɡɒn/

   adjective

   • 1. sad or miserable in appearance: "don't look so woebegone, Joanna"

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘afflicted with grief’): from woe + begone ‘surrounded’ (past participle of obsolete bego ‘go around, beset’).

   Scrabble Points: 15

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_stock_charactersList of stock characters - Wikipedia

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   1 day ago · A stock character, popular in 16th-century Spanish literature, who is comically and shockingly vulgar. Clarín, the clown in Pedro Calderón de la Barca 's Life is a dream, is a gracioso. Examples of similar characters in Anglophone culture include Bubbles, Wheeler Walker, Jr. and the stand-up persona of Bob Saget.