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Meanings of jackanapes in English

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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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