A contemptible person.
1850. Who are they but mangy skip-jacks, half-baked upper crusts?—S. Judd, ‘Richard Edney,’ p. 218.
1853. I would suggest that the management would do well to look after such skipjacks.—Daily Morning Herald, St. Louis, April 8.
1878. I’d as lieves take care o’ two on ’em as that skip-jack of a girl o’ his’n.—Rose T. Cooke, ‘Happy Dodd,’ chap. xxvii.
