different between buffoonery vs skylarking

English

buffoon +? -ery

buffoonery (countable and uncountable, plural buffooneries)

The behaviour expected of a buffoon; foolishness, silliness.
- before 1891: P.T. Barnum, quoted in The Life of Phineas T. Barnum [1]
  The Temperance Reform was too serious a matter for trifling jokes and buffooneries.

From skylark +? -ing.

skylarking

skylarking (countable and uncountable, plural skylarkings)

(originally nautical) Playing around; frolicking; originally, running about the rigging of a vessel for fun; horseplay.
- 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
  […] those gods and men whose titles to eminence are secure, seldom worry themselves about the seditious gossip of old apple-women, and the skylarkings of funny little boys in the street.

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