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 whistling match was not so dangerous a contest; the prize was conferred upon the whistler who could whistle clearest, and go through his tune while a clown, or merry-andrew, made laughable grimaces before him.
From Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
But his chief delight was in pursuing the profession of a juggler, mountebank, or merry-andrew, among the lowest rabble.
From Curiosities of Human Nature by Anonymous
My very breath was arrested when I saw the merry-andrew you made of yourself.
From A Very Naughty Girl by L. T. Meade
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 Gordon Stables
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