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
One of the company added, "A merry-andrew, a buffoon."
From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education
‘No; I don’t like those visitors of yours well enough to see you turned into a merry-andrew to please them.’
From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
For myself, I jumped and danced about like a merry-andrew, and I found, or fancied I found, myself already a convalescent.
From Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment by Shipp, John
