Wit-cracker

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who makes jests; a joker. obsolete

    "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."

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"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."

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