Someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous.
1 The young jackanapes seems to have a natural affinity for sharpers and swindlers.
2 He was naught but a young jackanapes for all his finery.
3 The girl with the beautiful eyebrows had married that French jackanapes after all.
4 He would soon let the jackanapes see that he was mistaken.
5 You'll not join those jackanapes in their gambols during business hours.
6 And that I could never abide, God knows, from any green young jackanapes .
7 This morning my brother Tom brought me my jackanapes coat with silver buttons.
8 If he's anything like his father, he is an impertinent jackanapes .
9 Must you have recourse to such jackanapes ' tricks to supplant me?
10 What a solemn, impertinent jackanapes you are, to be sure, Morris!
11 His manner is not very good; nevertheless, he is a coxcomb and a jackanapes .
12 Between ourselves-youare an impertinent jackanapes , and presume upon the credit of your uncle.
13 I have you now, you conceited jackanapes , you d-d sea-lawyer.
14 Sinclair is a stuck-up jackanapes , and it would do me good to kick him.
15 But that long jackanapes the son-ishe about the place?
16 Did you not see how I treated that young jackanapes ?
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