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单词 jack pudding
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jack puddingn.

Brit. /ˌdʒak ˈpʊdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌdʒæk ˈpʊdɪŋ/
Forms: see Jack n.2 and pudding n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Jack n.2, pudding n.
Etymology: < Jack n.2 (compare Jack n.2 Compounds 1) + pudding n.Compare earlier bagpudding n. 2.
Now archaic.
Originally: a clown or jester who entertains people with antics and buffoonery; spec. one who assists a mountebank (mountebank n. 1a); cf. merry-andrew n. 1a. Later more generally: a foolish or stupid person; an idiot.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > one who jests or jokes > buffoon
sporter1531
Owlglassc1560
scogginist1593
scurr1596
hobby-horse1600
zany1606
buffoona1610
jack pudding?c1635
Owl-spieglea1637
droll1645
buffian1655
drollist1668
droller1676
merry-andrew1694
grotesque1864
harlequin1883
?c1635 This Present Day shall bee showne Rare Dancing on Ropes (single sheet) And the merry conceites of Iacke Pudding.
1664 G. Etherege Comical Revenge iii. iv. 37 Sir, in a word, he was Jack-pudding to a Mountebank.
1752 H. Fielding Covent-Garden Jrnl. 20 Apr. 1/1 Writers are not..to be considered as mere Jack-Puddings, whose Business it is only to excite Laughter.
1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. iv. 94 What make you in that fool's jacket, and playing the pranks of a jack-pudding?
1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. x. 205 They were again jocund..the jester and Jack-pudding of the feast.
1999 W. L. Heat Moon River Horse viii. 320 I didn't tell him I was head bozo or that we jack-puddings passing for jack-tars had come 1,550 miles up the Missouri and 3,500 from the Atlantic.
2011 Sunday Times (Nexis) 3 Apr. (Culture section) 22 Only a dolt or jack pudding would carp at this charming musical.

Compounds

attributive, with the sense ‘characteristic or reminiscent of a jack pudding’.
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1667 R. L'Estrange tr. F. de Quevedo Visions i. 13 I was asking Michael Angelo here a while ago, why he drew the Devils in his Great Peice of the Last Judgment, with so many Monkey Faces, and Jack-Pudding Postures.
1668 T. Sydserff Tarugo's Wiles A iv Be gone with your Jack-Pudding Speech!
1700 D. Irish Levamen Infirmi 35 I cannot but stand in admiration at the Folly and Madness of such, who will let such strange Fopperies, foolish Pastimes, and Iack-Pudding Tricks, chouse them out of their Money, and of what's more precious, their Health too boot!
1837 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Knights ii. iv, in Comedies 217 You rascal, how you worry me With your jack-pudding nonsense!
1934 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Jan. 60/3 Such a jack-pudding trick would, one have thought, have existed as long as there had been acting at fairs.
2011 H. Ormsby-Lennon Hey Presto! viii. 212 In A Tale of a Tub, Swift combines two traditions of Restoration invective against popery and its quiddities (such as transubstantiation)—doctrinal argument and Jack Pudding burlesque.

Derivatives

jack-ˈpuddinghood n. Obsolete
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > one who jests or jokes > buffoon > characteristics of
buffoonery1621
jack-puddinghood1749
zanyism1823
1749 H. Walpole Let. 3 May in Corr. (1960) XX. 52 Grossatesta, the Modenese minister, a very low fellow, with all the jack-puddinghood of an Italian.
jack ˈpudding-like adj. Obsolete rare
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1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos i. ii. 29 So Iack-Pudding-like a Passage at the very Tayl of all thy merry matters.
1834 N. Wales Chron. 11 Mar. The Jack Pudding-like palaver of Sir W. Ingleby saved ministers from a defeat.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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