jackanapes

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim (A proper name for) an ape or monkey, especially a tame one kept for entertainment or as a pet.

   “To iettynge, to iaggynge, and to full of iapes; / To mockynge, to mowynge, to lye a iackenapes: […]”

2. isim (A proper name for) a person thought to behave like an ape or monkey, for example, in being impudent, mischievous, vain, etc.; specifically (chiefly humorous), an impudent or mischievous child.

   “I [Aye], quoth Jack a napes, by these ten bones, / Nothing happens amiss to a præparid minde, / Tis good philosophy, katt will to kinde.”

3. isim A crucifix.

   “I wyl rather haue these knees pared of, then I wil kneele to yonder iacknapes (meaning the rode) God healpe me I am borne to trouble and aduersity in this world.”

4. isim A small pulley which keeps a rope in line when lifting ore, water, etc., from a mine.
5. isim plural of jackanape