MERRY-ANDREW

merry-andrew. Merry-andrew, n. a buffoon, one who plays tricks

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Mer″ry–an″drew (–ăn″drṳ), n. One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. ☞ This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who gained patients by facetious speeches to the multitude.