Posted on 01/08/2016 4:08:58 AM PST by tioga
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
Jackanape
Noun
2. A mischievous child. 3. Archaic A monkey or an ape.1. A conceited or impudent person.
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It’s jackanapes, not jackanape.
I will be happy to pick the low-hanging fruit here.
Barack Obama is the canonical jackanapes.
You must be right about the ‘s’ on the end. Spel-chek autocorrected it that way in my last post — and spel-chek is NEVER wrong.
True.
Obozo came off as the Jacksnape and jackwipe he is at the CNN town hall the other day.
A++ He’s the obvious choice.
Corrected for spelling
Owed to a Spell Chequer
I halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plane lee marques four my revue
Miss steaks aye ken knot sea
Eye ran this poem threw it
Your sure reel glad two no
It’s vary polished in it’s weigh
My chequer tolled me sew
A chequer is a bless sing
It freeze yew lodes of thyme
It helps me awl stiles two reed
And aides mi when aye rime
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud
And wee mussed dew the best wee can
Sew flaws are knot aloud
And now bee cause my spelling
is checked with such grate flare
Their are know faults with in my cite
Of nun eye am a wear
Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed to be a joule
The chequer poured o’er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule
That’s why aye brake in two averse
My righting wants too pleas
Sow now ewe sea wye aye dew prays
Such soft wear for pea seas
The word IS Jackanapes, with an s. No lost credit for misspelling, bc I did it. A++
LOL! Thanks — that’s a keeper!
On the outskirts of a small town, there was a big, old pecan tree just inside the cemetery fence. One day, two boys filled up a bucketful of nuts and sat down by the tree, out of sight, and began dividing the nuts. “One for you, one for me, one for you, one for me,” said one boy. Several dropped and rolled down toward the fence.
Another boy came riding along the road on his bicycle. As he passed, he thought he heard voices from inside the cemetery. He slowed down to investigate. Sure enough, he heard, “One for you, one for me, one for you, one for me ....”
He just knew what it was. He jumped back on his bike and rode off. Just around the bend he met an old man with a cane, hobbling along.
“Come here quick,” said the boy, “you won’t believe what I heard! Satan and the Lord are down at the cemetery dividing up the souls!”
The man said, “Beat it kid, can’t you see it’s hard for me to walk.” When the boy insisted though, the man hobbled slowly to the cemetery.
Standing by the fence they heard, “One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me.”
The old man whispered, “Boy, you’ve been tellin’ me the truth. Let’s see if we can see the Lord...?” Shaking with fear, they peered through the fence, yet were still unable to see anything. The old man and the boy gripped the wrought iron bars of the fence tighter and tighter as they tried to get a glimpse of the Lord.
At last they heard, “One for you, one for me. That’s all. Now let’s go get those nuts by the fence and we’ll be done....”
They say the old man had the lead for a good half-mile before the kid on the bike passed him.
I just looked it up in the Oxford English Dictionary, and “jackanape” is actually one of many variations, but “jackanapes” is the preferred spelling.
I am so stealing that.
Good go know.
Good morning!
Just like I did. Enjoy!
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