How to pronounce“jackleg”in English
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Definitions of “jackleg”
Amateur, untrained; incompetent.
“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 […]”
Dishonest, unscrupulous.
“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.”
A type of drill operated by means of compressed air.
An amateur; an untrained or incompetent person.
“[…] I, gentlemen and ladies, are a rale Scientificky! I ain’t none of your jack-legs.”