The word 'jackanapes' is considered a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an old-fashioned term which means a mischievous or impertinent person, often a young boy. Example: The young prince was known for his wild and boisterous behavior, earning him the nickname "jackanapes" among the palace staff.
Assuredly, they will not spike UKIP's guns.That was apparent on the evening of Mr Cameron's speech in another East Anglian town, Brandon, where a crowd of UKIP supporters had gathered to hear the party's jackanapes leader, Nigel Farage.
Either way, Britain, or what is left of it, is about to see an awful lot more of Mr Farage's jackanapes grin including at the party's eagerly awaited annual gathering later this month, in Doncaster, parliamentary seat of Labour's leader Ed Miliband.
(Tell that jackanapes: Ruby Foo's!) Occasionally a reader will write.
And the main thing is we'd never have to hear that preening jackanapes' voice again.
Or the grinning Stalinist jackanapes, Tony Blair?
It turns out that Mike Leigh, the profane poet and rough beast of modernism adores the discipline and brilliance an elaborate jackanapes of the imperial age.
However he spoke be for Academy of Political Science at Metropolitan Opera house, still the jackanapes to the end, telling the Academy existed for purpose of destroying Constitution, when we know their energies have been given to making it difficult for politically unscientific person to get into Metropolitan Opera House.
Enter Johnny One-Eye, a 17-year-old "man-child of uncertain birth," a happily unreconstructed "scavenger and a scamp," a quick-tongued, quick-thinking jackanapes with more mentors than might be wise and half a King's College education.
"You impertinent jackanapes," his father wrote him.
Seated next to Agassi in the auditorium the other night, watching a serene man of 39 talk about himself, I remembered the strutting jackanapes (definition: an impudent or conceited fellow; a saucy or mischievous child) who came upon the scene a couple of decades ago.
Indoors, every teatime, their grandmother read to them: Ivanhoe, The Jungle Book, Jackanapes This was the calm before the second world war, when, if you were young and didn't look too closely, the superiority of being upper class seemed as though it might last forever.
