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Word Meanings - JESTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool. This . . . was Yorick's skull, the king's jester. Shak. Dressed in the motley garb that jesters wear. Longfellow. 2. A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk. He ambled

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1. A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool. This . . . was Yorick's skull, the king's jester. Shak. Dressed in the motley garb that jesters wear. Longfellow. 2. A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk. He ambled up and down With shallow jesters. Shak.

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  • FELLOW-COMMONER
    A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
  • CLOWNAGE
    Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. B. Jonson.
  • JESTER
    1. A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool. This . . . was Yorick's skull, the king's jester. Shak. Dressed in the motley garb that jesters wear. Longfellow. 2. A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk. He ambled
  • FELLOWSHIP
    1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods.
  • DROLLIST
    A droll. Glanvill.
  • FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
    companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.
  • CLOWN
    Fries. kl clown, dial. Sw. klunn log, Dan. klunt log block, and E. 1. A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor. Sir P. Sidney. 2. One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl. The clown, the child
  • DROLLISH
    Somewhat droll. Sterne.
  • BUFFOONERY
    The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures. Nor that it will ever constitute a wit to conclude a tart piece of buffoonery with a "What makes you blush" Spectator.
  • BUFFOONISH
    Like a buffoon; consisting in low jests or gestures. Blair.
  • CLOWNISH
    Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. "Clownish hands." Spenser. "Clownish mimic." Prior. -- Clown"ish*ly, adv. Syn. -- Coarse; rough; clumsy; awkward; ungainly; rude; uncivil; ill- bred; boorish; rustic;
  • CLOWNISHNESS
    The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke.
  • FELLOW-FEELING
    1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot.
  • FELLOWLIKE
    Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. Udall.
  • FELLOWLY
    Fellowlike. Shak.
  • HUMORIST
    One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors. 2. One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character, which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways. He . . . was a great humorist in all parts of his life. Addison. 3. One who displays
  • BUFFOONISM
    The practices of a buffoon; buffoonery.
  • CLOWNERY
    Clownishness. L'Estrange.
  • DROLLER
    A jester; a droll. Glanvill.
  • FELLOW
    companionship, prop., a laying together of property; fe property + lag a laying, pl. lög law, akin to liggja to lie. See Fee, and Law, 1. A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer. The fellows of his crime. Milton. We are fellows
  • BEDFELLOW
    One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.
  • UNFELLOWED
    Being without a fellow; unmatched; unmated. Shak.
  • DISFELLOWSHIP
    To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate. An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer. Freewill Bapt. Quart.
  • ODD FELLOW
    A member of a secret order, or fraternity, styled the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, established for mutual aid and social enjoyment.
  • PEWFELLOW
    1. One who occupies the same pew with another. 2. An intimate associate; a companion. Shak.
  • GOOD-FELLOWSHIP
    Agreeable companionship; companionableness.

 

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