lord mayor's fool
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.29 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An imaginary personage said to like everything that is good, and plenty of it.
Example Sentences
- "The Clown is a London cockney, with a prodigious eye to his own comfort and muffins,—a Lord Mayor's fool, who loved "everything that was good;" and Columbine is the boarding-school girl, ripe for running away with, and making a dance of it all the way from Chelsea to Gretna Green."
Inflected Forms
Lord Mayor's fools (plural)