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merry-andrew

merry-andrew is the alternative spelling of Merry Andrew.

Meaning of Merry Andrew

Noun

Merry Andrew (plural Merry Andrews)

  1. (idiomatic) A person who clowns publicly; a buffoon; an entertainer's assistant.
    • Instead, therefore, of answering my landlady, the puppet-show man ran out to punish his Merry-Andrew [...]1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 438

Forms of merry-andrew

pluralmerry-andrews

Questions about merry-andrew

What is merry-andrew the alternative spelling of?
Merry-andrew is the alternative spelling of Merry Andrew.

Words near merry-andrew in the dictionary

  1. Merry Lees
  2. merry men
  3. merry widow
  4. merry widows
  5. merry Xmas
  6. merry-andrew
  7. merry-andrews
  8. merry-go-around
  9. merry-go-arounds
  10. merry-go-down
  11. merry-go-round

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Adapted from Wiktionary: merry-andrew (page history and authors); Merry Andrew (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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