jackanapes
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1. Name for a tame ape or monkey.    {dag}a. as the quasi-proper
name of an ape. Obs.

    b. as common noun: An ape, a monkey. arch.

    2. Applied to a person compared to an ape.    {dag}a. as quasi-proper
name, applied to the Duke of Suffolk (whose badge was an ape's clog and
chain). Obs.

    {dag}b. as quasi-proper name of a man using the tricks, or
displaying the qualities, of an ape. Obs.

    c. as common noun: One who is like an ape in tricks, airs, or
behaviour; a ridiculous upstart; a pert, impertinent fellow, who assumes
ridiculous airs; a coxcomb. (The current use.) Also, playfully, A pert
forward child, a `monkey'.

    {dag}3. Applied contemptuously to a crucifix. Obs.

    4. Mining. `The small guide pulleys of a whim' (Gresley Gloss. Coal
Mining 1883).

    {dag}5. jackanapes on horseback: name for a proliferous variety of
marigold, daisy, etc. in which additional flower-heads spring from the
principal one; also for a monstrous variety of cowslip or oxlip in which
the calycine segments are converted into leaves. Obs.

    6. attrib.

    Hence (nonce-wds.) {sm}jacka{smm}napery, action characteristic of a
jackanapes; {sm}jacka{smm}napish, jacka{sm}napsian adjs., having the
character of a jackanapes.