jackanape

• “Tremble in your lillies, you jackanape slobgullions of slack misfortunes!”

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• “Dougal was glad to see Steenie, and brought him into the great oak parlour, and there sat the laird his leesome lane, excepting that he had beside him a great, ill-favoured jackanape, that was”

  Redgauntlet

• “And another answered, ‘The jackanape will be here betimes the morn.’”

  Redgauntlet

• “A minute after, Sir John flings the body of the jackanape down to them, and cries that the siller is fund, and that they should come up and help him.”

  Redgauntlet

• “Sir John made up his story about the jackanape as he liked himsell; and some believe till this day there was no more in the matter than the filching nature of the brute.”

  Redgauntlet

• “‘In HELL, if you will have my thoughts of it,’ said my gudesire, driven to extremity, ‘in hell! with your father, his jackanape, and his silver whistle.’”

  Redgauntlet

• “Alas! that man, with so many noble objects of pursuit, will amuse himself like a jackanape, with a laced jerkin and a cap and bells! —”

  The Monastery

• ““Is this the jackanape page for whom we have waited thus long?” said he to Wing-the-wind. — “And my Lord Ruthven will reach the castle long before us.””

  The Abbot

• “That being said, perhaps the hearings can be held in session indefinitely until the jackanape returns.”

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• “Ask Madame Wu, she'll tell you that this jackanape knows the difference between a bone-in and a butterfly cut, which perhaps is the deepest cut of all, savvy?”

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