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An impertinent or silly fellow; a simpleton; a boor; a clown; also, a servant; a rustic. "Jack fool." Chaucer. Since every Jack became a gentleman, There 's many a gentle person made a Jack. Shak.

A silly, pert girl; -- corresponding to jackanapes. Massinger.

the times, more than led by his own disposition, to any rigor of actions. Eikon Basilike. Silly women, laden with sins,led away by divers lusts. 2 Tim. iii. 6 (Rev. Ver.).

A silly person. [Obs.] A liripoop, vel lerripoop, a silly, empty creature; an old dotard. Milles. MS. Devon Gloss.

Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly. "Maudlin eyes." Dryden. "Maudlin eloquence." Roscommon. "A maudlin poetess." Pope. "Maudlin crowd." Southey.

Silly; weakly sentimental. [Colloq.] G. Eliot.

Foolish; silly; simple; ignorant; also, weak; effeminate. [Obs.] Gower. But say that we ben wise and nothing nice. Chaucer.

A fool; a silly or stupid person. [Law] An old ninnyhammer, a dotard, a nincompoop, is the best language she can afford me. Addison.

A simpleton; a silly person. [Colloq.] Addison.

A silly fellow; a ninny.

To render trifling or futile; to make silly. [R.] Coleridge.

A sycophantic servant. [Obs.] Silly ducking observants, That stretch their duties nicely. Shak.

Silly; childish; trifling. [Obs.] To send such peevish tokens to a king. Shak.

Boyish; childish; trifling; silly. The French have been notorious through generations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents. De Quincey.

That which is puerile or childish; especially, an expression which is flat, insipid, or silly.

In a silly manner. [Obs.]

See Silly. [Obs.] Spenser.

Silly. [Obs.] Chaucer. Wyclif.

A weak, bashful, silly fellow. Ainsworth.

Silly; simple-minded; stupid. Taylor (1630)