jackleg

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Amateur, untrained; incompetent.

   “1841, Letter to the editor, The Southern Planter, Volume I, No. 1, January 1841, p. 12, The next year I had a projecting kind of jack leg carpenter, from Hanover, living with me in the capacity of overseer […]”

2. sıfat Dishonest, unscrupulous.

   “The little nosy reporter with the hair was fair crazy to come, but McGinty gets a jackleg doctor to examine him an’ swear that he’s sufferin’ from spatulation o’ the medulla oblongata, housemaid’s knee, and the hives.”

3. sıfat Ineptly built or operated; makeshift.

   “The train is late […]. ¶ “Well, if I come to such a place as this I must expect a jackleg railroad […].””

4. isim A type of drill operated by means of compressed air.
5. isim An amateur; an untrained or incompetent person.

   “[…] I, gentlemen and ladies, are a rale Scientificky! I ain’t none of your jack-legs.”

6. isim A shyster or con artist; a gambler who cheats; a generally dishonest or reprehensible person.

   ““[…] we ain’t called on to believe every smooth-talking jackleg who wanders in here.””