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Meanings of young jackanapes in English

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Usage of young 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
And that I could never abide, God knows, from any green young jackanapes.
Erema; Or, My Father's Sin
4
Did you not see how I treated that young jackanapes?
Without a Home
5
What do I care that a young jackanapes buys his colonelcy over my head?
The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 03
6
If I don't I'll soon have some real trouble on hand with these young jackanapes!
The High School Pitcher; or, Dick & Co. on the Gridley Diamond
7
Come, sir, you're in a gentleman's rooms; don't pitch your voice like a young jackanapes blowing into a horn.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 8
8
Striding up to Luke's seat, he said threateningly, "Have you been talking against me, you young jackanapes?"
Struggling Upward, or Luke Larkin's Luck
9
Instead of kicking Denry out of the house for an impudent young jackanapes, Mr Cotterill simply resumed his sheepish smile.
The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns
10
Well, let me tell you, my young jackanapes, that if anybody has said anything against your wife it was you.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
11
You infernal young jackanapes!
The Midnight Queen
12
You insolent young jackanapes!
The Channings: A Story
13
A proud young jackanapes!
Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs: A Tale of Land and Sea
14
If you speak one more civil word to that young jackanapes Lestrange, you shall hear it again on both your ears!
There & Back
15
I declare, Martha, I shouldn't be one bit surprised if that young jackanapes of a brother fell in love with our Bee.
The Honorable Miss: A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town
16
Still I would find that young jackanapes of an engineer and let him know that anybody who made the Blight unhappy must deal with me.
A Knight of the Cumberland
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Young jackanapes across language varieties
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