jackanapeses

noun

plural of jackanapes
as in bantlings

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  1. newborn
  2. infants
  3. monkeys
  4. rascals
  5. urchins
  6. toddlers
  7. whippersnappers
  8. neonates
Noun
  • The details are buried under language like ‘contribution pilot program,’ IRS form numbers, and are built for compliance rather than someone holding a newborn.
    — Natalie Gordon, Fortune, 6 July 2026
  • The 49-year-old, now a mother to four sons, shared a photo of her breastfeeding a newborn on Instagram.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 6 July 2026
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Noun
  • And with that decision, the company narrowed the chance that the mother’s anguish could draw attention to any danger the formula might pose to other infants.
    — David Hilzenrath, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • This incremental approach begins with infants, aiming to cultivate support for individualized market returns over collective Social Security guarantees.
    — Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of infants
Noun
  • Workers were able to prevent more than 1,000 other monkeys at the facility from escaping.
    — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
  • Squirrel monkeys—a petite, chirruping, tree-climbing species whose dark muzzle gives the impression of permanent 5 o’clock shadow—have to deal with that proportional dilemma, too.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 29 June 2026
Definition of monkeys
Noun
  • Of all the former rascals, Symoné has enjoyed the longest and most successful career in entertainment.
    — Andrew Walsh, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Jan. 2026
  • In the years since 2004’s Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Penn’s carved out a niche embodying big-talking, attention-grabbing rascals who say inappropriate things, then shrug their way through the consequences.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
Definition of rascals
Noun
  • Freed from predation, purple urchins razed vast swaths of kelp unchecked.
    — Tatjana Baleta, Time, 28 May 2026
  • Cala Gaetano is the most breathtaking of all, both in awe and anxiety, where slippery steps without any barriers bring you to a secluded cove speckled with urchins.
    — Kristina Kasparian, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2026
Definition of urchins
Noun
  • Fleming was one of a dozen people at the home when the home was shot at, including two toddlers, a 6-year-old and a teenager, a police report said.
    — Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 1 July 2026
  • This small city on Florida’s central Gulf Coast offers an escape everyone in the family will enjoy, from toddlers all the way up to the grandparents.
    — Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 30 June 2026
Definition of toddlers
Noun
  • The young whippersnappers in their nice Manhattan apartments see the COVID-19 pandemic as simply one more roadblock between them and hooking up.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 2 June 2026
  • More, the coaches of the last three title-winning teams (Florida’s Todd Golden and Hurley) all come from the current crop of whippersnappers, as do the leaders of each 1-seed in this tourney.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026
Definition of whippersnappers
Noun
  • Males guard the eggs and newborn frogs, called neonates.
    — Ana V. Longo, The Conversation, 24 June 2026
  • There have been publications about nicotine transmission and neonates after blood transfusion.
    — Torie Bosch, STAT, 1 June 2026
Definition of neonates
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