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
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)
—The merry-andrew was here at my side, and I deemed it most prudent to drop a few sous into his cap, and effect my escape.
From Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 by Pinkney, Lt-Col.
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
Frederick interrupted him to enquire who was the merry-andrew with the face of a he-goat, who was in the very act of blessing all the dancers in the middle of a pastourelle.
From Sentimental Education Vol 1 by Flaubert, Gustave
