zany

zany englannista suomeksi

1. pelle, sekopää

2. hullunkurinen, hassu

3. sekopäinen

1. hullunkurinen

1. Substantiivi

1. Verbi

zany englanniksi

1. Unusual and awkward in a funny, comical manner; outlandish; clownish.

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4. (quote-book), Waddell|Rube Waddell's pattern after one of his zany outbursts usually involved promises of good behavior and a spurt of excellent pitching.

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7. Ludicrously or incongruously comical.

8. A fool or clown, especially one whose business on the stage is to imitate foolishly the actions of the principal clown.

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11. (quote-book). Such a person travelled round to fairs and markets selling his nostrums or medicines. This character is dressed in a lace hat, long periwig and embroidered coat with lace cuffs, and is attended by his zany, who is wearing a chequered harlequin outfit and is 'quacking' or 'puffing' his master's wares. No seventeenth- or eighteenth-century mountebank was complete without his zany or 'Merry Andrew' – a term originally applied to Dr Andrew Boorde, physician to Henry VIII and noted for his ready wit and humour, who was the subject of many broadside ballads.

12. To mimic foolishly.