I will teach a scurvy jackanape priest to meddle or make.
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Jackanape
//ˈd͡ʒækəneɪp//
Synonyms for "jackanape" (108 found)
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Can Iack an Ape be merry vvhen his clog is at his heele.
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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, […]
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Who were the aristocracy, to give themselves airs? Jackanapes!
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