The Collaborative International Dictionary
jackanape
Jackanapes \Jack"a*napes\, n. [For Jack o' (= of) apes; prop., a man who exhibits apes.] [Written also jackanape.]
A monkey; an ape.
--Shak.-
A coxcomb; an impertinent or conceited fellow.
A young upstart jackanapes.
--Arbuthnot.
Wiktionary
jackanape
a. Of or pertaining to a jackanapes. n. A jackanapes.
Usage examples of "jackanape".
Let me simply say here that it is my tentative opinion that the reticence of the Sfondrati-Piccolominis is best explained as the result of their collective shame at the disrepute brought upon their scholarly traditions by the jackanape Houdini Sfondrati-Piccolomini, the which charlatan and rogue did so—"