merry-andrew
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“Persons who naïvely mistake me for a merry-andrew with an inflated pig’s bladder can never understand that I adore whichever tradition I am striving to follow,” he said in a 1980 interview.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 30, 2014
The worthy fellow soon became the jester and merry-andrew of the boatswain's mess, where a berth had been kept for him.
From Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules
Even the school-boys left the merry-andrew and came to gaze, with wide-open eyes, at this tall, strange-looking old man.
From Biographical Stories (From: "True Stories of History and Biography") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Zany, zā′ni, n. a merry-andrew: a buffoon.—v.t. to play the zany to.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
But this proves to be the note of Paillasse, a merry-andrew.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 347, December 20, 1828 by Various
