Definitions
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- noun a stock character in commedia dell'arte depicted as a boastful coward
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Examples
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The actual lyric: "Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do the fandango?"
Shawn Amos: "Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy" & Other Misheard Lyrics 2009
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What! The Smart Set scaramouche, the ribald fellow, the raffish mocker, with his praise of Florenz
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"What decent girl's going to listen to such a ragged scaramouche as you are?"
Burr Junior George Manville Fenn 1870
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"Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do the fandango?"
NYT > Home Page By ROSLYN SULCAS 2011
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It is not only illustrated with all the exhibits, but with photographs of Picasso, his family, his printers, and his various houses and studios, giving them context; a detailed chronology supports the text, and extracts from the diaries of Jean Cocteau, Picasso's queer sidekick and scaramouche, are exquisitely revealing - "with his prodigious gift for imagination … everything that he touches deforms the world yet resembles it better than any photograph".
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You too are criticizing the anticipated actions of motivated individuals that have stepped in to become more involved in a neighborhood they have an interest in improving. scaramouche, you must really be thick.
LJWorld.com stories: News < 2010
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On my way back home yesterday I saw a little silhouetto of a man (scaramouche, scaramouche!) in the middle of a garden along the rue de l '
ParisDailyPhoto 2009
chained_bear commented on the word scaramouche
Will you do the fandango?
August 20, 2008
reesetee commented on the word scaramouche
Thunderbolt and lightning--very very frightening me.
August 20, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word scaramouche
Where's Galileo, anyway?
August 20, 2008
mollusque commented on the word scaramouche
In silhouetto.
August 21, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word scaramouche
Magnifico.
August 21, 2008
reesetee commented on the word scaramouche
I'm just a poor boy.
August 21, 2008
bilby commented on the word scaramouche
Nobody loves him.
August 21, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word scaramouche
Reesetee's just a poor boy? You mean, from a poor family?
August 21, 2008
plethora commented on the word scaramouche
Spare him his life from this monstrosity.
August 21, 2008
bilby commented on the word scaramouche
Easy come, easy go.
August 21, 2008
plethora commented on the word scaramouche
Will you let him go?
August 21, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word scaramouche
Bismillah. No! Why would we let him go?
August 21, 2008
reesetee commented on the word scaramouche
Let me gooooo!
August 21, 2008
gangerh commented on the word scaramouche
Beelzebub has a devil put aside . .
August 22, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word scaramouche
For who?
August 22, 2008
reesetee commented on the word scaramouche
For me.
August 22, 2008
gangerh commented on the word scaramouche
No,
August 22, 2008
gangerh commented on the word scaramouche
no,
August 22, 2008
gangerh commented on the word scaramouche
no,
August 22, 2008
gangerh commented on the word scaramouche
no,
August 22, 2008
gangerh commented on the word scaramouche
no,
August 22, 2008
gangerh commented on the word scaramouche
no,
August 22, 2008
gangerh commented on the word scaramouche
no-
August 22, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word scaramouche
Oh mama mia.
August 22, 2008
reesetee commented on the word scaramouche
Mama mia!
August 22, 2008
she commented on the word scaramouche
Mama mia, let-me-go!
August 23, 2008
gangerh commented on the word scaramouche
Mama ooo
August 23, 2008
reesetee commented on the word scaramouche
Beelzebub has a devil put aside.
August 24, 2008
gangerh commented on the word scaramouche
Who for this time?
August 25, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word scaramouche
Sorry, gangerh, didn't mean to make you cry. Listen, I'm leaving Wordie for a while, but if I'm not back again this time tomorrow, carry on. Really, carry on. As if nothing really matters.
August 25, 2008
gangerh commented on the word scaramouche
HaHa. As if, c_b, as if. Wordieplay magnifico. Guess you've just gotta get out - just gotta get right out of here -
August 25, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word scaramouche
Nothing really matters.
August 28, 2008
reesetee commented on the word scaramouche
Anyone can see.
August 28, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word scaramouche
Well. Nothing really matters to me.
August 28, 2008
gangerh commented on the word scaramouche
figaro
August 28, 2008
bilby commented on the word scaramouche
They do this on Digg too :-)
February 12, 2009
dontcry commented on the word scaramouche
Is that the wind I hear??
February 6, 2010
reesetee commented on the word scaramouche
Anyway it blows...doesn't really matter.
February 6, 2010
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word scaramouche
Not to me, not for me.
February 6, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word scaramouche
Mama just killed a man.
(Isn't that a sentence that cries out for punctuation.)
February 8, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word scaramouche
Mamaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Ahahahaha. Mama Mama Mama Mama Mama Mama Mama Mama!
-- Animal from the Muppets
February 26, 2011
reesetee commented on the word scaramouche
I lerve the Muppets version of that song.
March 2, 2011