Lord Mayor's fool
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Lord Mayor's fool (plural Lord Mayor's fools)
- An imaginary personage said to like everything that is good, and plenty of it.
- 1845, Leigh Hunt, The Indicator: a Miscellany for the Fields and the Fireside, page 213:
- 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.
References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary