词源

源自中古法語 、，源自意大利語 (“戴面具的丑角”)，源自，的方言形式。

发音

• 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈzeɪni/

  • （英国）音频：

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• 韻部：-eɪni
• 斷字：za‧ny

形容词

(比較級，最高級)

1. 滑稽的
   • 1986, , :

     And I will admit now but never then that, more than once, listening to the Viennese chattering their zany German on the pavements, or taking himself to one of the struggling small theatres that were cropping up in cellars and bombed houses...

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   • 1999, , “Gillespiana”, 出自 Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie, Oxford: , →ISBN，頁號 293:

     Press articles emphasized his ['s] ambassadorial role and drew attention to the paradox that he was a shrewd musician and leader despite his zany image.

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   • 2000, Alan H. Levy, Rube Waddell: The Zany, Brilliant Life of a Strikeout Artist, Jefferson, N.C.: London: , →ISBN，頁號 241:

     When playing for , ]'s pattern after one of his zany outbursts usually involved promises of good behavior and a spurt of excellent pitching.

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   • 2013, William Paul, “No Escaping the Depression: Utopian Comedy and the Aesthetics of Escapism in 's (1938)”, 出自 A Companion to Film Comedy, Chichester, West Sussex: , →ISBN，頁號 280:

     This runs counter to the play, where Grandpa is always benignly indulgent of all his zany progeny and their equally zany spouses, and is even somewhat zany himself.

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   • 2015, Kimberly D. Nettles-Barcelón, “The Sassy Black Cook and the Return of the Magic Negress: Popular Representations of Black Women's Food Work”, 出自 Jennifer Jensen Wallach 編, Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama, Fayetteville, Ark.: , →ISBN，頁號 117:

     The montage goes on to show scenes of Carla singing, dancing, meditating, breaking the tension amongst her co-cheftestants with sing-a-longs and “hootie-hoo” lessons, and ultimately wooing the judges with a combination of her zany personality and solid cooking skills.

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2. 荒唐的，可笑的

名词

(複數)

1. (棄用) 小丑 （尤指滑稽模仿主要丑角的）
   • a. 1631, John Donne, Epistle to Mr. I. W.

     Then write that I may follow, and so be / Thy echo, thy debtor, thy foil, thy zany.

   • 1728, Alexander Pope, “Book III”, 出自 :

     O great restorer of the good old stage, / Preacher at once, and Zany of thy age!

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   • 1996, Fiona Haslam, From Hogarth to Rowlandson: Medicine in Art in Eighteenth-century Britain, Liverpool: , →ISBN，頁號 69:

     Part of the illusory world is the 'quack' or mountebank who can be seen standing on his own special platform in the centre of the crowd […]。Such a person travelled round to fairs and markets selling his nostrums or medicines. This character is dressed in a lace hat, long periwig and embroidered coat with lace cuffs, and is attended by his zany, who is wearing a chequered harlequin outfit and is 'quacking' or 'puffing' his master's wares. No seventeenth- or eighteenth-century mountebank was complete without his zany or 'Merry Andrew' – a term originally applied to Dr Andrew Boorde, physician to Henry VIII and noted for his ready wit and humour, who was the subject of many broadside ballads.

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动词

(第三人稱單數簡單現在時，現在分詞，一般過去時及過去分詞)

1. (棄用) 滑稽地模仿

参考资料

• John Dover Wilson, comp. (1911) Life in Shakespeare's England: A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge: At the University Press, OCLC 2938084。

异序词

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