PERSIFLEURS Synonyms

• a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages

• a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes

• a person who does something thoughtless or annoying

• an inconspicuous clause in a document or bill that affects its meaning in a way that is not immediately apparent

• a playing card that is usually printed with a picture of a jester

• mimics literary or musical style for comic effect

• someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision

• long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds

• a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm

• a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm

• someone who eats food rapidly and greedily

• someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision

• a worker who teases wool

• someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)

• an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest

• a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution

• an attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show

• a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings

• a device for teasing wool