Associations to the word «Jackleg»

Wiktionary

JACKLEG, adjective. (US) amateur, untrained, incompetent
JACKLEG, adjective. (US) dishonest, unscrupulous
JACKLEG, noun. A type of drill operated by means of compressed air.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne