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jackanapes

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun jackanapes has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

jackanapesn. [For Jack o' (= of) apes; prop., a man who exhibits apes.].
  •  A monkey; an ape.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A coxcomb; an impertinent or conceited fellow.  [1913 Webster]
    "A young upstart jackanapes."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

jackanapes, n. archaic 1 a pert or insolent fellow.
2 a mischievous child.
3 a tame monkey.

Etymology
earliest as Jack Napes (1450): supposed to refer to the Duke of Suffolk, whose badge was an ape's clog and chain

ROGET THESAURUS

jackanapes

Blusterer

N blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, roisterer, brawler, fanfaron, braggart, bully, terrorist, rough, bulldozer, hoodlum, hooligan, larrikin, roarer, Mohock, Mohawk, drawcansir, swashbuckler, Captain Bobadil, Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Thraso, Pistol, Parolles, Bombastes Furioso, Hector, Chrononhotonthologos, jingo, desperado, dare-devil, fire eater, fury, rowdy, slang-whanger, tough, puppy, prig, Sir Oracle, dogmatist, doctrinaire, jack-in-office, saucebox, malapert, jackanapes, minx, bantam-cock.

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