jackanapes

Example Sentences

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The jackanapes in the slashed pink doublet hissed.

From Literature

But after four cocktails the Coney Island jackanapes started to mislay its manners.

From BBC

"By his extreme youth, he can only be a prancing jackanapes, and so I name him."

From Literature

This love, this royalty by jackanapes brought to earth, the stage to my back: what can a man affirm in such a position: flight?

From Project Gutenberg

I should not have believed the young jackanapes had so much heart.

From Project Gutenberg