A person who provides, or is inclined to engage in, amusement, diversion, or pleasure; spec. (originally Scottish) †a person who entertains or amuses…

(An Anglicization of the name of) the legendary German jester Till Eulenspiegel, the type of a roguish fool; (hence) a jester; a buffoon. Also…

a scurrilous jester.

A buffoon or jester.

transferred. A person who plays ridiculous antics; a frivolous or foolish fellow, jester, buffoon.

Hence in transferred and allusive uses, with various shades of meaning. One who resembles, or acts like, a merry-andrew or buffoon; one who plays…

transferred. A low jester; ‘a man that practises indecent raillery’ (Johnson); a wag, a joker (implying contempt or disapprobation).

Originally: a clown or jester who entertains people with antics and buffoonery; spec. one who assists a mountebank (mountebank, n. 1a); cf. merry-a…

The name of (the type of) a jester or buffoon; = Owlglass, n.

A funny or waggish fellow; a merry-andrew, buffoon, jester, humorist.

= buffoon, n.

a professed facetious person; a jester, buffoon.

a professed facetious person; a jester, buffoon.

In extended use: a fool, an idiot; a joker.

A clown, buffoon, or merry-andrew. Cf. antic, n. 3a.

transferred. A buffoon in general; a fantastic fellow.