wit-cracker

English

Alternative forms

witcracker

Noun

wit-cracker (plural wit-crackers)

(obsolete) One who makes jests; a joker.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 5 Scene 4
  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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