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Brewer's: Jack-a-napes
or Jackanapes = Jack of apes. An impertinent, vulgar prig. (See Jeannot.) More likely, it is Jack and ape, formed on the model of Jack-ass, a stupid fool. “I will teach a scurvy jackanape…Brewer's: Jack Brag
(See Brag.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Jack Drum's EntertainmentJack-Amend-All A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y…Brewer's: Jack of Dover
A stockfish, “hake salted and dried.” The Latin for a hake is merlucius, and lucius is a jack or pike. Mer, of course, means the sea, and Dover, the chief Clinque Port, is used as a…Brewer's: Jack Horner
For solution see Notes and Queries, xvi. 156; xvii. 83. In Latin alcaics, thus: Sedens Johannes parvus in angulo Hornerus edit crustula Christanica; Et dixit, ut pruna extrahebat Pollice…Brewer's: Jack Ketch
Although this looks very much like a sobriquet, there seems no sufficient evidence to believe it to be otherwise than a real proper name. We are told that the name Jack was applied to…Brewer's: Jack of Newbury
John Winchcomb, the greatest clothier of the world, in the reign of Henry VIII. He kept 100 looms in his own house at Newbury, and equipped at his own expense 100 of his men to aid the…Brewer's: Jack Pudding
A buffoon who performs pudding tricks, such as swallowing a certain number of yards of black-pudding. S. Bishop observes that each country names its stage buffon from its favourite viands…Brewer's: Jack the Ripper
An unknown person who so called himself, and committed a series of murders in the East End of London on common prostitutes. The first was April 2nd, 1888: the next was August 7th; the…Brewer's: Jack Robinson
Before you can say Jack Robinson. Immediately. Grose says that the saying had its birth from a very volatile gentleman of that name, who used to pay flying visits to his neighbours, and…Brewer's: Jack Sprat
A dwarf; as if sprats were dwarf mackerels. Children, by a similar metaphor, are called small fry. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Jack TarJack Robinson A…Trending
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