Definitions

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  • noun a stock character in commedia dell'arte depicted as a boastful coward

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Examples

  • The actual lyric: "Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do the fandango?"

    Shawn Amos: "Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy" & Other Misheard Lyrics 2009

  • What! The Smart Set scaramouche, the ribald fellow, the raffish mocker, with his praise of Florenz

    Prejudices : first series, 1919

  • "What decent girl's going to listen to such a ragged scaramouche as you are?"

    Burr Junior George Manville Fenn 1870

  • "Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do the fandango?"

    NYT > Home Page By ROSLYN SULCAS 2011

  • It is not only illustrated with all the exhibits, but with photographs of Picasso, his family, his printers, and his various houses and studios, giving them context; a detailed chronology supports the text, and extracts from the diaries of Jean Cocteau, Picasso's queer sidekick and scaramouche, are exquisitely revealing - "with his prodigious gift for imagination … everything that he touches deforms the world yet resembles it better than any photograph".

    Evening Standard - Home 2010

  • You too are criticizing the anticipated actions of motivated individuals that have stepped in to become more involved in a neighborhood they have an interest in improving. scaramouche, you must really be thick.

    LJWorld.com stories: News < 2010

  • Scaramouche, scaramouche will you do the fandango -

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • Scaramouche, scaramouche will you do the fandango -

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • Scaramouche, scaramouche will you do the fandango -

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • On my way back home yesterday I saw a little silhouetto of a man (scaramouche, scaramouche!) in the middle of a garden along the rue de l '

    ParisDailyPhoto 2009

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  • Will you do the fandango?

    August 20, 2008

  • Thunderbolt and lightning--very very frightening me.

    August 20, 2008

  • Where's Galileo, anyway?

    August 20, 2008

  • In silhouetto.

    August 21, 2008

  • Magnifico.

    August 21, 2008

  • I'm just a poor boy.

    August 21, 2008

  • Nobody loves him.

    August 21, 2008

  • Reesetee's just a poor boy? You mean, from a poor family?

    August 21, 2008

  • Spare him his life from this monstrosity.

    August 21, 2008

  • Easy come, easy go.

    August 21, 2008

  • Will you let him go?

    August 21, 2008

  • Bismillah. No! Why would we let him go?

    August 21, 2008

  • Let me gooooo!

    August 21, 2008

  • Beelzebub has a devil put aside . .

    August 22, 2008

  • For who?

    August 22, 2008

  • For me.

    August 22, 2008

  • No,

    August 22, 2008

  • no,

    August 22, 2008

  • no,

    August 22, 2008

  • no,

    August 22, 2008

  • no,

    August 22, 2008

  • no,

    August 22, 2008

  • no-

    August 22, 2008

  • Oh mama mia.

    August 22, 2008

  • Mama mia!

    August 22, 2008

  • Mama mia, let-me-go!

    August 23, 2008

  • Mama ooo

    August 23, 2008

  • Beelzebub has a devil put aside.

    August 24, 2008

  • Who for this time?

    August 25, 2008

  • Sorry, gangerh, didn't mean to make you cry. Listen, I'm leaving Wordie for a while, but if I'm not back again this time tomorrow, carry on. Really, carry on. As if nothing really matters.

    August 25, 2008

  • HaHa. As if, c_b, as if. Wordieplay magnifico. Guess you've just gotta get out - just gotta get right out of here -

    August 25, 2008

  • Nothing really matters.

    August 28, 2008

  • Anyone can see.

    August 28, 2008

  • Well. Nothing really matters to me.

    August 28, 2008

  • figaro

    August 28, 2008

  • They do this on Digg too :-)

    February 12, 2009

  • Is that the wind I hear??

    February 6, 2010

  • Anyway it blows...doesn't really matter.

    February 6, 2010

  • Not to me, not for me.

    February 6, 2010

  • Mama just killed a man.

    (Isn't that a sentence that cries out for punctuation.)

    February 8, 2010

  • Mamaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Ahahahaha. Mama Mama Mama Mama Mama Mama Mama Mama!

    -- Animal from the Muppets

    February 26, 2011

  • I lerve the Muppets version of that song.

    March 2, 2011