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jackleg

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jack·leg (j

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) 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?

Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context

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