motley fool

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsjesterfool

   Broaderclown

Questions about motley fool

What does motley fool mean?

motley fool means "a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages".

What is another word for motley fool?

Close synonyms include jester, fool. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is motley fool a common word?

motley fool is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.