Jackanape
//ˈd͡ʒækəneɪp//
"Jackanape" in a Sentence (4 examples)
I will teach a scurvy jackanape priest to meddle or make.
Can Iack an Ape be merry vvhen his clog is at his heele.
Now, she hath favoured, doth favour, and will favour, this jack-an-ape,—for what good part about him I know not, save that as one noble lady will love a messan dog, and another a screaming popinjay, and a third a Barbary ape, so doth it please our noble dame to set her affections upon this stray elf of a page, […]
Who were the aristocracy, to give themselves airs? Jackanapes!
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