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merryandrew

merryandrew 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 merryandrew

pluralmerryandrews

Questions about merryandrew

What is merryandrew the alternative spelling of?
Merryandrew is the alternative spelling of Merry Andrew.

Words near merryandrew in the dictionary

  1. merry-totters
  2. merry-widow
  3. merry-widowed
  4. merry-widowing
  5. merry-widows
  6. merryandrew
  7. merryandrews
  8. merrybell
  9. merrybells
  10. Merrybent
  11. Merryday

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Adapted from Wiktionary: merryandrew (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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