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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 mer·ry-an·drew /ˌmɛriˈæn(ˌ)dru/
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Mer·ry-an·drew n. 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.
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