Word Meanings - MERRY-ANDREW - 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.

• Doctorate
  The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
• Quackled
  of Quackle
• Sportsman
  One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes, etc.
• Doctoress
  A female doctor.
• Quackling
  of Quackle
• Sportsmanship
  The practice of sportsmen; skill in field sports.
• Sportulae
  of Sportula
• Buffooneries
  of Buffoonery
• Doctorship
  Doctorate.
• Quacksalver
  One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank.
• Sportula
  A gift; a present; a prize; hence, an alms; a largess.
• Buffoonery
  The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures.
• Especially
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• Sportulary
  Subsisting on alms or charitable contributions.
• Buffoonish
  Like a buffoon; consisting in low jests or gestures.
• Mountebank
  One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor.

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