jackleg

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A type of drill operated by means of compressed air.
  2. An amateur; an untrained or incompetent person. US
    — […] I, gentlemen and ladies, are a rale Scientificky! I ain’t none of your jack-legs.
  3. A shyster or con artist; a gambler who cheats; a generally dishonest or reprehensible person. US
    — “[…] we ain’t called on to believe every smooth-talking jackleg who wanders in here.”
形容词 adj.
  1. Amateur, untrained; incompetent. US,not-comparable
    — 1841, Letter to the editor, The Southern Planter, Volume I, No. 1, January 1841, p. 12, The next year I had a projecting kind of jack leg carpenter, from Hanover, living with me in the capacity of overseer […]
  2. Dishonest, unscrupulous. US,not-comparable
    — The little nosy reporter with the hair was fair crazy to come, but McGinty gets a jackleg doctor to examine him an’ swear that he’s sufferin’ from spatulation o’ the medulla oblongata, housemaid’s knee, and the hives.
  3. Ineptly built or operated; makeshift. US,not-comparable
    — The train is late […]. ¶ “Well, if I come to such a place as this I must expect a jackleg railroad […].”

词形变化

jacklegged alternative jacklegs plural jacklegged alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
jackleg fence

词源

词源 1
From jack + leg. Compare blackleg (“a person who replaces striking workers; a cheater”) and such expressions as jack of all trades, every man jack.
词源 2
From jack + leg. Compare blackleg (“a person who replaces striking workers; a cheater”) and such expressions as jack of all trades, every man jack.
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