安裝中文字典英文字典辭典工具!
安裝中文字典英文字典辭典工具!
|
- JACKLEG Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
Don't call someone jackleg unless you're prepared for that person to get angry with you Throughout its more than 150-year-old history in English, jackleg has most often been used as a term of contempt and deprecation, particularly in reference to lawyers and preachers
- JACKLEG | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
He was a doer, not a thinker; his skills were the skills of an artisan, a tinkerer, a jackleg mechanic
- jackleg, adj. n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
Factsheet What does the word jackleg mean? There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the word jackleg See ‘Meaning use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence This word is used in midland U S English and southern U S English
- jackleg - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Noun jackleg (plural jacklegs) A type of drill operated by means of compressed air (US) An amateur; an untrained or incompetent person
- Jackleg – Southern Word for an Unskilled or Amateur Worker | Hillbilly . . .
In Southern and Appalachian speech, jackleg means unskilled, incompetent, or amateurish, usually describing someone doing work they are not properly trained to do
- jackleg blackleg — Wordorigins. org
A jackleg is a professional, especially a lawyer or preacher, who is an imposter or otherwise untrained or dishonest As an adjective it can refer to anything that is done hastily or unskillfully
- JACKLEG Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
JACKLEG definition: unskilled or untrained for one's work; amateur See examples of jackleg used in a sentence
- Jackleg - definition of jackleg by The Free Dictionary
Define jackleg jackleg synonyms, jackleg pronunciation, jackleg translation, English dictionary definition of jackleg Chiefly Southern South Midland US adj 1 Lacking skill or training; incompetent Used especially of lawyers or preachers 2 Unscrupulous or dishonest
|
|
|