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n. A conceited or impudent person.

n. A mischievous child.

n. Archaic A monkey or an ape.

n. A monkey.

n. An impudent or mischievous person.

n. Plural form of jackanape.

n. A monkey; an ape.

n. A coxcomb; an impertinent or conceited fellow.

n. A monkey; an ape.

n. Hence A coxcomb; a ridiculous, impertinent fellow.

n. In mining, the small guide-pulleys of a whim.

n. someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous

"The Countess might accuse him, but Harry never had the ambition to make people think him that: his natural tendency was the reverse: and he objected to the application of the word jackanapes to himself, and was ready to contest the fact of people having that opinion at all."

nonentity    cypher    nobody    cipher   

jackanapes-on-horseback   

monkey    ape    coxcomb    pert    puppy    saucebox    dandy