Meaning of Merry Andrew | Babel Free

Definitions

A person who clowns publicly; a buffoon; an entertainer's assistant.

idiomatic

Examples

“Instead, therefore, of answering my landlady, the puppet-show man ran out to punish his Merry-Andrew [...]”

“The games of the circus—the wild-beast fight and the gladiators, the rope-dancers, the merry-andrews, and the posture-masters,—were more to their taste than clever intrigue and brilliant dialogue.”

“One of them, the eldest, was a sort of merry andrew and was not above dressing the part with a weird cap of jackal's skin with many hanging tails and tassels.”

CEFR level