Joker vs Harlequin - What's the difference?
joker | harlequin |
A person who makes jokes.
(slang) A funny person.
A jester.
A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card in some card games.
An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.
(New Zealand, colloquial) A man.
a pantomime fool, typically dressed in checkered clothes
* 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
A yellowish-green color.
brightly coloured, especially in a pattern like that of a harlequin clown's clothes
Of a yellowish-green
To remove or conjure away, as if by a harlequin's trick.
* M. Green
To make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.
Harlequin is a synonym of joker.
As nouns the difference between joker and harlequin
is that joker is a person who makes jokes while harlequin is a pantomime fool, typically dressed in checkered clothes.As an adjective harlequin is
brightly coloured, especially in a pattern like that of a harlequin clown's clothes.As a verb harlequin is
to remove or conjure away, as if by a harlequin's trick.joker
English
(wikipedia joker)Noun
(en noun)- Some joker keeps changing this web page.
Synonyms
* (jester ): court jester, fool, jesterSee also
*See also
* * * ----harlequin
English
Noun
(en noun)- ... were certainly the worst and dullest company into which an audience was ever introduced; and (which was a secret known to few) were actually intended so to be, in order to contrast the comic part of the entertainment, and to display the tricks of harlequin to the better advantage.
Usage notes
* Because of its origin in the name of an Italian theatrical character, English Harlequin is often used as a proper name.Adjective
(head)Derived terms
* harlequinade * harlequin bat * harlequin beetle * harlequin cabbage bug * harlequin caterpillar * harlequin duck * harlequin moth * harlequin opal * harlequin snakeVerb
(en verb)- And kitten, if the humour hit / Has harlequined away the fit.
