Dictionary Entry
harlequin
harlequin is a 9-letter English word with 5 senses as noun, noun i, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy. Face value is 21 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 21 · Words With Friends 23 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy.
- 2noun i
To play the droll; to make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.
- 3transitive verb
Toremove or conjure away, as by a harlequin's trick.
- 4noun
a clown or buffoon (after the Harlequin character in the commedia dell'arte)
- 5verb
variegate with spots or marks
"His face was harlequined with patches"
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