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
And I do hope, also, that you won't make yourself a merry-andrew or a figure of fun at the Weldons' to-night.
From The Rebel of the School by Meade, L. T.
Your aforesaid merry-andrew brother, Wolfgang in Germany, Amadeo in Italy.
From The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Nohl, Ludwig
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
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
