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Lord Mayor's fool

Lord Mayor's fool noun: an imaginary personage said to like everything that is good, and plenty of it.

Noun

Lord Mayor's fool (plural Lord Mayor's fools)

  1. An imaginary personage said to like everything that is good, and plenty of it.
    • The Clown is a London cockney, with a prodigious eye to his own comfort and muffins,—a Lord Mayor's fool, who loved "everything that was good;" and Columbine is the boarding-school girl, ripe for running away with, and making a dance of it all the way from Chelsea to Gretna Green.1845, Leigh Hunt, The Indicator: a Miscellany for the Fields and the Fireside, page 213

Forms of Lord Mayor's fool

pluralLord Mayor's fools

Questions about Lord Mayor's fool

What does Lord Mayor's fool mean?
Lord Mayor's fool means an imaginary personage said to like everything that is good, and plenty of it.
What part of speech is Lord Mayor's fool?
Lord Mayor's fool is a noun.
What is the plural of Lord Mayor's fool?
The plural of Lord Mayor's fool is Lord Mayor's fools.

Words near Lord Mayor's fool in the dictionary

  1. Lord knows
  2. Lord love a duck
  3. Lord love you
  4. Lord Mayor
  5. Lord Mayor of London
  6. Lord Mayor's fool
  7. Lord Mayors
  8. lord mesne
  9. Lord Muck
  10. lord of all one surveys
  11. lord of gingerbread

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