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.

• 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
• Gainful
  Profitable; advantageous; lucrative.
• Gaingiving
  A misgiving.
• Mountebankism
  The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.
• Quackism
  Quackery.
• Sportsmen
  of Sportsman
• Businesses
  of Business
• Englishable
  Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, 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
• Englishism
  A quality or characteristic peculiar to the English.

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