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wit-cracker en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) One 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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