jackanapes in English

noun
1
an impertinent person.
I was at school with a Bruno, and as the grinning jackanapes sat at his piano and segued effortlessly from Bach to the Beatles and back again via Satie, nobody queued up to congratulate him; they simply wanted to beat him up.
2
a tame monkey.
In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, one Peter Palmer, of Lincoln's Inn, brought an action against a barrister of the name of Boyer, for having, with the intention to injure him in his name and practice, said, 'Peter Palmer is a paltry lawyer, and hath as much law as a jackanapes .'
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1. 2)”.A synonym for Coxcomb is jackanapes.

2. Or are ye scared, simpering jackanapes, afraid to muss your pretty hair?