wit-cracker

noun

One who makes jests; a joker.

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Meanings

nounwit-cracker (plural wit-crackers)

plural wit-crackers · alternative witcracker

  1. obsoleteOne who makes jests; a joker.

    DON PEDRO. How dost thou, Benedick, the married man? BENEDICK. I'll tell thee what, prince; a college of wit-crackers cannout flout me out of my humour.

    1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]
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