Associations to the word «Jackanapes»
Verb
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Wiktionary
JACKANAPES, noun. (obsolete) A monkey.
JACKANAPES, noun. (dated) (pejorative) An impudent or mischievous person.
JACKANAPES, noun. Plural of jackanape
Dictionary definition
JACKANAPES, noun. Someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous.
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.