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Merry-andrew   Listen
noun
Merry-andrew  n.  One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Note: 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.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Merry-andrew" Quotes from Famous Books



... don't—don't be just a merry-Andrew!" she cried impulsively, before he had time to continue, which she perceived he meant to do, as ...
— The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck - A Comedy of Limitations • James Branch Cabell



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