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jackanapes

noun as in brat

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That accomplished, I shall arrest the Dowager and her son and every jackanapes within that castle.

You pestilent young jackanapes, do you suppose I haven't noticed your idleness?

"Lest he take thee for one of his runaway jackanapes," answered the steward, smiling sourly.

In another letter he writes about "a jackanapes who has lately made a noise here, one Boswell, by anecdotes of Dr. Johnson."

No, Mr. Harry Jocelyn, you are not the jackanapes you try to make people think you: you understand me.'

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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