Brewer's: Partridge

The attendant of Jones, half–barber and half–schoolmaster; shrewd, but simple as a child. His simplicity, and his strong excitement at the play-house, when he went to see Garrick in Hamlet, are admirably portrayed. (Fielding: Tom Jones.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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