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jackanapes
Part of speech: Noun Usage examples "jackanapes":- As to the Marquess's depriving the court of Donna Laura's presence, their guest protested against it as an act of overt disloyalty to the sovereign; and what most surprised Odo, who had often heard his grandfather declaim against the Count as a cheap jackanapes that hung about the court for what he could make at play, was the indulgence with which the Marquess received his visitor's sallies. - "The Valley of Decision", Edith Wharton.
- Lord Gosford always voted against him too; and do you think, jackanapes, that my friend the Earl of Gosford and- and- myself were ever wrong? - "Precaution", James Fenimore Cooper.
- No, sir, he did not; who said he looked like Grace Chatterton, jackanapes? - "Precaution", James Fenimore Cooper.