{"id":4490,"date":"2012-11-30T22:12:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T22:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/30\/merry-andrew-n-and-adj-oxford-english\/"},"modified":"2012-11-30T22:12:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T22:12:52","slug":"merry-andrew-n-and-adj-oxford-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/30\/merry-andrew-n-and-adj-oxford-english\/","title":{"rendered":"merry-andrew, n. and adj. : Oxford English Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.oed.com\/view\/Entry\/116866'>merry-andrew, n. and adj. : Oxford English Dictionary<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>Who knew?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>A.<\/strong>\u00a0n.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1a.\u00a0A person who entertains people with antics and buffoonery; a clown; a mountebank&rsquo;s assistant.<\/p>\n<p>1b.\u00a0In extended use: a fool, an idiot; a joker.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0In\u00a0<em title=\"plural\">pl.<\/em>\u00a0Low-quality playing cards. Also\u00a0Merry Andrew playing cards.\u00a0<em title=\"Obsolete\">Obs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em title=\"Obsolete\">\u00a0<strong>B.<\/strong>\u00a0adj.\u00a0(<em title=\"attributive\">attrib.<\/em>).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That is or resembles a merry-andrew; characteristic of a merry-andrew; foolish.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>merry-andrew, n. and adj. : Oxford English Dictionary Who knew? A.\u00a0n. 1a.\u00a0A person who entertains people with antics and buffoonery; a clown; a mountebank&rsquo;s assistant. 1b.\u00a0In extended use: a fool, an idiot; a joker. 2.\u00a0In\u00a0pl.\u00a0Low-quality playing cards. Also\u00a0Merry Andrew playing cards.\u00a0Obs. \u00a0B.\u00a0adj.\u00a0(attrib.). That is or resembles a merry-andrew; characteristic of a merry-andrew; foolish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}