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Jackpudding   Listen
noun
Jackpudding  n.  A merry-andrew; a buffoon.






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... insolently and unjustly. He had indeed an old grudge to stimulate his zeal. He had been Chief Justice of Chester when Delamere, then Mr. Booth, represented that county in Parliament. Booth had bitterly complained to the Commons that the dearest interests of his constituents were intrusted to a drunken jackpudding. [41] The revengeful judge was now not ashamed to resort to artifices which even in an advocate would have been culpable. He reminded the Lords Triers, in very significant language, that Delamere had, in Parliament, objected to the bill ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 2 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay



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