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Definition of the day : « merry-andrew »
- As in buffoon : noun clownlike person
- As in clown : noun joking person
- As in comedian : noun funny person, often professional
- It was his custom when in banter to drop from English to his native brogue like a merry-andrew.
- Extract from : « Lords of the North » by A. C. Laut
- Herr Carovius was dancing like a Merry-Andrew around the door of his residence.
- Extract from : « The Goose Man » by Jacob Wassermann
- My very breath was arrested when I saw the merry-andrew you made of yourself.
- Extract from : « A Very Naughty Girl » by L. T. Meade
- "You are incorrigible, you merry-andrew" she said, brushing the curls from his forehead.
- Extract from : « The Northern Light » by E. Werner
- But this proves to be the note of Paillasse, a merry-andrew.
- Extract from : « The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. » by Various
- If I were to charge a battery, I'd only look like a merry-andrew after all; men will not respect what is only laughable.
- Extract from : « Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune » by Charles James Lever
- Even the school-boys left the merry-andrew and came to gaze, with wide-open eyes, at this tall, strange-looking old man.
- Extract from : « Biographical Stories » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- But his chief delight was in pursuing the profession of a juggler, mountebank, or merry-andrew, among the lowest rabble.
- Extract from : « Curiosities of Human Nature » by Anonymous
- There was one called Merrylees, or more often Merry-Andrew, a great favourite with the students.
- Extract from : « The Court of Cacus » by Alexander Leighton
- Why will your lordship trouble yourself with the squabbles of a merry-andrew and a quack doctor?
- Extract from : « The Funny Side of Physic » by A. D. Crabtre