- 1. n. One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Source: opted
- 2. 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. Source: webster
- 3. One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; azany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Source: adambom
- 4. n. One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Source: ecdict
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