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ˈjack-ˈpudding arch.
[Jack n.1 36.]
A buffoon, clown, or merry-andrew, esp. one attending on a mountebank.
1648C. Walker Hist. Independ. i. 21 The Junto-men, the Hocus-Pocusses, the State-Mountebanks, with their Zanyes and Jack-puddings! 1664G. Etherege Com. Revenge iii. iv, Sir, in a word, he was Jack-pudding to a mountebank. 1711Addison Spect. No. 47 ⁋6. 1752 Fielding Covent Garden Jrnl. No. 10 Writers are not..to be considered as mere jackpuddings, whose business it is only to excite laughter. 1826Scott Woodst. xxviii, What make you in that fool's jacket, and playing the pranks of a jack-pudding? 1881Besant & Rice Chapl. of Fleet i. x. (1883) 75 They were again jocund,..the jester and Jack-pudding of the feast.
attrib.1668T. St. Serfe Taruga's Wiles A iv, Be gone with your Jack-Pudding Speech! 1836–48B. D. Walsh Aristoph., Knights ii. iv, You rascal, how you worry me with your jack-pudding nonsense.
Hence jack-ˈpuddinghood, the character of a jack-pudding, buffoonery.
1749H. Walpole Lett. to Mann 3 May, Grossatesta, the Modenese minister, a very low fellow, with all the jack-puddinghood of an Italian. |