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MERRYANDREW
Mer"ry-an"drew, n.
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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