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• (n.) One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor.
Mer'ry-an'drew (-ăn'dru) noun One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. » This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who gained patients by facetious spe...