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Word Meanings - MERRYANDREW - Book Publishers vocabulary database - One whose business is to make - selfpublishingguru.com
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Word Meanings - MERRYANDREW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Note: This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who gained patients by facetious speeches to the multitude.

  • Gainful
    Profitable; advantageous; lucrative.
  • Mountebankish
    Like a mountebank or his quackery.
  • Quackish
    Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery.
  • Sportling
    A little person or creature engaged in sports or in play.
  • Buffoonly
    Low; vulgar.
  • Englishing
    of English
  • Englishable
    Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English.
  • Gaingiving
    A misgiving.
  • Mountebankism
    The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.
  • Quackism
    Quackery.
  • Sportsmen
    of Sportsman
  • Businesses
    of Business
  • Englishism
    A quality or characteristic peculiar to the English.
  • Gainless
    Not producing gain; unprofitable.
  • Multitude
    A great number of persons collected together; a numerous collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly.
  • Quackled
    of Quackle
  • Sportsman
    One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes, etc.
  • Bordeaux
    Pertaining to Bordeaux in the south of France.
  • Business
    That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before p
  • Englishmen
    of Englishman

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