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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope