Usage examples for jackanapes:

• It's that conceited jackanapes of his- Frank Frost. "Frank's Campaign or the Farm and the Camp" – Horatio Alger, Jr.

• This morning my brother Tom brought me my jackanapes coat with silver buttons. "Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright" – Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke

• Jackanapes got up and shook himself, none the worse, except for being heels over head in love with the red- haired pony. "Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories" – Juliana Horatio Ewing

• This is not an easy moment, Jackanapes "Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories" – Juliana Horatio Ewing