Merry Andrew

Word MERRY ANDREW
Character 12
Hyphenation mer ry-an drew
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Merry Andrew"

What do we mean by merry andrew?

A clown; a buffoon. noun

One whose business it is to make sport for others by jokes and ridiculous posturing; a buffoon; a clown. noun

One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. noun

Alternative spelling of Merry Andrew.; clown; buffoon. noun

A person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior noun

A person who clowns publicly; a buffoon; an entertainer's assistant.

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The word "merry-andrew" in example sentences

Molière, in his best pieces, is as superior to the pure but cold Terence, and to the buffoon Aristophanes, as to the merry-andrew Dancourt. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And after a few efforts to better her condition she grew cautious, and hesitated discreetly before returning one of those ingenuous answers which, in the beginning, had made her the merry-andrew of the class. ❋ Unknown (2003)

His habit was very proper for a merry-andrew, being a dirty calico, with hanging sleeves, tassels, and cuts and slashes almost on every side: it covered a taffety vest, so greasy as to testify that his honour must be a most exquisite sloven. ❋ Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Robinson Crusoe (1958)

But its chief modern interest lies in the tradition that Swift once observed that he "had not laughed above twice" in his life, -- once at the tricks of a merry-andrew, and again when Fielding's Tom Thumb killed the ghost. ❋ G. M. Godden (N/A)

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. ❋ Arthur L. Hayward (N/A)

We had about half a dozen men, mostly trudging on foot, and but slightly armed, commanded by Selameh; and one of them, named Salem, was the merry-andrew of the party, full of verbal and practical jokes. ❋ James Finn (N/A)

It was a new system which had come into fashion: the most plastic performances spoiled by the juxtaposition of their caricatures; acrobats, Olympian gods, parodied by a merry-andrew in a ridiculous coat: just as though Nunkie Fuchs, for instance, had taken it into his head to appear with his Three Graces and mimic their tricks, kicking about at the end of a wire with his fat, fatherly paunch and his round, silly face. ❋ J. Andr�� Castaigne (N/A)

But he was much more a merry-andrew than a pattern monk. ❋ William Cleaver Wilkinson (N/A)

One of the company added, "A merry-andrew, a buffoon." ❋ Ontario. Ministry Of Education (N/A)

Johnnie was expending his energies in hard digging, and dropped for the while his usual character of 'merry-andrew.' ❋ Florence Wilford (N/A)

This was the truth on which the popular leaders rested; and hence it seemed to them a marvel that the Ministry, to use the words of Samuel Adams, should employ troops only "to parade the streets of Boston, and, by their ridiculous merry-andrew tricks, to become the objects of contempt of the women and children." ❋ Various (N/A)

If our philosopher will tuck his robe high up about his loins, and play the merry-andrew, if he will grimace, and paint thick, and hold dialogue with himself, who shall hinder him? ❋ Various (N/A)

The excessively tall and the excessively short Germans who talked into one another's teeth; the young person who sang coon songs in a fashion not negro, but all her own; the giant with a boutonniere which a midget mounted a step-ladder to spray; the famous plump beauty whom Shelby whispered she resembled -- all the merry-andrew company won her laughter and applause. ❋ Mark Lee Luther (N/A)

But that she should excite such heart-throbs, that she should evoke such phantoms with nothing but her beauty, her flowers, her motley costume, and a certain trick of dancing she had learned from some merry-andrew; and that without a word, without a thought, without even appearing to know it! ❋ Various (N/A)

But this proves to be the note of Paillasse, a merry-andrew. ❋ Various (N/A)

Beneath is a mountebank, exalted on a stage, eating fire to attract the public attention; while his merry-andrew behind is distributing his medicines. ❋ John Trusler (N/A)

It seems to prove that his business had not always been that of a mere harlequin or merry-andrew whose only care was that the revelry should run high and the fun grow fast and furious, while the fire blazed and crackled on the hearth, while the streets swarmed with festive crowds, and through the clear frosty air, far away to the north, Soracte showed his coronal of snow. ❋ Unknown (1922)

From the standpoint of the man of letters, the evolution of Mark Twain from a journeyman printer to a great author, from a merry-andrew to a world-humorist, from a river-pilot to a trustworthy navigator on the vast and uncharted seas of human experience, may be taken as symbolic of the romance of American life. ❋ Archibald Henderson (1920)

This look was not the one Gringoire had feared to encounter in his shame at being surprised by so grave and learned a personage in his merry-andrew costume. ❋ Unknown (1917)

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