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noun
a clown; buffoon.
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Merry-andrew
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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World English Dictionary
| merry-andrew | |
| —n | |
| a joker, clown, or buffoon | |
| [C17: original reference of Andrew unexplained] | |
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Word Origin & History
merry-andrew
"a buffoon; a zany; a jack-pudding" [Johnson], originally "mountebank's assistant," 1673, from merry + masc. proper name Andrew, but there is no certain identification with an individual.
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