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

What with the hum of human voices, the lowing of cattle, the squeaking of pigs, and the laughter caused by the merry-andrew, the marketplace was in very great confusion.

From Biographical Stories (From: "True Stories of History and Biography") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

They lived among themselves in gangs, and to facilitate their progress, affected somewhat of the merry-andrew.

From The Man Who Laughs by Hugo, Victor

So closely do the larches grow together, so white with moss, so stunted and old-looking, that it would have made a merry-andrew melancholy to walk among them.

From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Stables, Gordon

How can one play the merry-andrew under such circumstances?

From Jacques Bonneval by Manning, Anne