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Yorʹick

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The King of Denmark’s jester, “a fellow of infinite jest and most excellent fancy.” (Hamlet, v. 1.) In Tristram Shandy Sterne introduces a clergyman of that name, meant for himself.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Yeoman (A)
Yeoman’s Service
Yeomen of the Guard
Yeth-Hounds
Yezd
Yggdrasil
Ymir
Yniol
Yoke
Yorick
York
York Stairs (London)
Yorks (a Stock-Exchange term)
Yorkshire
Young Chevalier
Young England
Young Germany
Young Italy
Your Petitioners shall ever Pray
Youth Restored

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