Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who turns what is serious into ridicule; a jester; a banterer; a mocker.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A banterer; a jester; a mocker.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
banterer ; ajester ; amocker .
Etymologies
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French
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Examples
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A French author of considerable note, making use of that people as an object of comparison, says, "_Un peuple aussi malin et aussi railleur que celui d'Athenes.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810
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