Word: jackanapes
Category: jackanapes
Arts & Entertainment, Reference, Hobbies & Leisure
Synonyms: jackanapes
waste time, dally, dawdle, loiter, linger, take one's time, delay, temporize, stall, procrastinate, pussyfoot around, drag one's feet, dither, hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver, hem and haw, shilly-shally, lollygag, let the grass grow under one's feet, tarry, dillydally, shillyshally, drag one's heels
Translations: jackanapes
jackanapes in french
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french
Translations:
polisson
jackanapes in russian
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russian
Translations:
щеголь, нахал, выскочка
jackanapes in czech
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czech
Translations:
uličník
jackanapes in polish
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polish
Translations:
zuchwalec, zarozumialec, urwis
jackanapes in ukrainian
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ukrainian
Translations:
шакали
The meaning and "use of": jackanapes
noun
- an impertinent person. - I was at school with a Bruno, and as the grinning jackanapes sat at his piano and segued effortlessly from Bach to the Beatles and back again via Satie, nobody queued up to congratulate him; they simply wanted to beat him up.
- a tame monkey. - In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, one Peter Palmer, of Lincoln's Inn, brought an action against a barrister of the name of Boyer, for having, with the intention to injure him in his name and practice, said, 'Peter Palmer is a paltry lawyer, and hath as much law as a jackanapes .'