[たいこもち;ほうかん(幇間), taikomochi ; houkan ( houkan )] (n) (1) professional jester; professional entertainer; comedian; buffoon; (2) flatterer; sycophant; brown-noser [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Jester \Jest"er\, n. [Cf. {Gestour}.]
1. A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool.
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This . . . was Yorick's skull, the king's jester.
--Shak.
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Dressed in the motley garb that jesters wear.
--Longfellow.
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2. A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light
and amusing talk.
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He ambled up and down
With shallow jesters. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
jester
n 1: a professional clown employed to entertain a king or
nobleman in the Middle Ages [syn: {jester}, {fool}, {motley
fool}]
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