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Meanings of jackanapes in English

Portuguese
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Catalan
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Someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous.

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Usage of jackanapes in English
1
The young jackanapes seems to have a natural affinity for sharpers and swindlers.
Herb of Grace
2
He was naught but a young jackanapes for all his finery.
Sovereign
3
The girl with the beautiful eyebrows had married that French jackanapes after all.
The Lady Doc
4
He would soon let the jackanapes see that he was mistaken.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4
5
You'll not join those jackanapes in their gambols during business hours.
The Daredevil
6
And that I could never abide, God knows, from any green young jackanapes.
Erema; Or, My Father's Sin
7
This morning my brother Tom brought me my jackanapes coat with silver buttons.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
8
If he's anything like his father, he is an impertinent jackanapes.
Frank's Campaign; Or, The Farm and the Camp
9
Must you have recourse to such jackanapes' tricks to supplant me?
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1
10
What a solemn, impertinent jackanapes you are, to be sure, Morris!
Ishmael; Or, In the Depths
11
His manner is not very good; nevertheless, he is a coxcomb and a jackanapes.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.
12
Between ourselves-youare an impertinent jackanapes, and presume upon the credit of your uncle.
The Works of Frederick Schiller
13
I have you now, you conceited jackanapes, you d-d sea-lawyer.
Mr. Fortescue / An Andean Romance
14
Sinclair is a stuck-up jackanapes, and it would do me good to kick him.
The Young Miner; Or, Tom Nelson in California
15
But that long jackanapes the son-ishe about the place?
The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1
16
Did you not see how I treated that young jackanapes?
Without a Home
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