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jackleg

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jack·leg  (jklg) Chiefly Southern and South Midland U.S.
adj.
1. Lacking skill or training; incompetent. Used especially of lawyers or preachers.
2. Unscrupulous or dishonest.
3. Makeshift; temporary.
n.
1. An unskilled or unscrupulous itinerant worker.
2. A strikebreaker.
[Perhaps jack + (black)leg.]


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He has been told many a time how the born- and-trained novelist works; won't he let me round and complete his knowledge by telling him how the jackleg does it?
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