harlequin
harlequin has 5 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.
Definitions
- n.. 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.
- n. i.. To play the droll; to make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.
- v. t.. Toremove or conjure away, as by a harlequin's trick.
- n.. a clown or buffoon (after the Harlequin character in the commedia dell'arte)
- v.. variegate with spots or marks; "His face was harlequined with patches"