Citations:jackanapes
English citations of jackanapes
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- 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], pages 375–376:
- Was there euer man had ſuch lucke? when I kiſt the Iacke vpon an vp-caſt, to be hit away? I had a hundred pound on't: and then a whoreſon Iacke-an-apes muſt take me vp for ſwearing, as if I borrowed mine oathes of him, and might not ſpend them at my pleaſure.
- 1903, The Way of All Flesh, by Samuel Butler, Chapter 36
- Then I set the boy down as a conceited young jackanapes, which no doubt he was,—but so are a great many other young people of Ernest's age.
- 1904 One Day More: A play in one act, by Joseph Conrad
- That stubborn jackanapes refuse to marry a girl like you!
- 1960, The Alamo, produced and directed by John Wayne:
- Jim Bowie (as portrayed by Richard Widmark) : I'd hate to say anything good about that long-winded jackanapes, but he does know the short way to start a war.
- 1996 A Game of Thrones, by George R. R. Martin
- By his extreme youth, he can only be a prancing jackanapes, and so I name him.