Crossword-Solution: JACKANAPES 10 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 25

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Word Word Type Definition
Jackanapes n. A monkey; an ape.
Jackanapes n. A coxcomb; an impertinent or conceited fellow.

We have 16 clues for the answer “JACKANAPES”

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APE, tame (arch.) 1 answer
MONKEY, tame (arch.) 1 answer
Petty person who affects importance. 1 answer
Someone unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous 1 answer
pert child 1 answer
pert fellow 1 answer
pert young fellow 1 answer
tame ape 1 answer
tame monkey 1 answer
Impertinent Person 2 answers
Saucy one 3 answers
Impertinent one 6 answers
Coxcomb 10 answers
Mischievous one 10 answers
Tyke 21 answers
Whipper-snapper? 26 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with JACKANAPES (5)

Think you, Tony,” he added, turning towards the Vicomte, “that that jackanapes of yours will join us in a glass? Tell him that we drink in token of reconciliation.” “In fact you are all such merry company,” said Marguerite, “that I trust you will forgive me if I bid my brother good-bye in another room.” It would have been bad form to protest.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
Smith, that word ‘esquire’ is gone to the dogs,—used on the letters of every jackanapes who has a black coat.
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1995
Mudge whirled round at this unexpected attack, and shook her fist menacingly at Paul-- “So, you've put in your oar, you little jackanapes,” said she, “If you're well enough to be impudent you're well enough to go to work.
Paul Prescott's Charge Horatio Alger 2006
Father said: I don’t care much about these visits to the Richters as long as that _young jackanapes_ is still there, but Mother can’t very well refuse.
A Young Girl’s Diary An Anonymous Young Girl 2006
Was there ever man had such luck! When I kiss’d the jack, upon an upcast to be hit away! I had a hundred pound on’t; and then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing, as if I borrowed mine oaths of him, and might not spend them at my pleasure.
Cymbeline William Shakespeare 1998

Quotes with JACKANAPES (2)

Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else.
Tom Robbins Jitterbug Perfume
Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.
Jonathan Raban
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Appears in: NYT.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (1952–1972).