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jackanapes Noun Brit a mischievous child [literally: Jack of the ape, nickname of first Duke of Suffolk, whose badge showed an ape's ball and chain]
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He then proceeded to inform her plainly that Jones was in bed with a wench, and made use of an expression too indelicate to be here inserted; which so enraged Mrs Honour, that she called him jackanapes, and returned in a violent hurry to her mistress, whom she acquainted with the success of her errand, and with the account she had received; which, if possible, she exaggerated, being as angry with Jones as if he had pronounced all the words that came from the mouth of Partridge. The next moment he was lost in a fringe of birches; then he came out again on the upper side, where I could see him climbing like a jackanapes, for that part was again very steep; and then he dipped behind a shoulder, and I saw him no more. It was beyond a doubt some unspeakable tenor, a good-looking jackanapes, who mouthed and simpered as he sang |
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