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
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
This last mentioned person had been bred with an apothecary, and sometimes travelled the country in the high capacity of a quack doctor, at others, in the more humble station of a merry-andrew.
From Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Hayward, Arthur L.
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.
It was his custom when in banter to drop from English to his native brogue like a merry-andrew.
From Lords of the North by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
