apery

noun

Etymology

From ape + -ery.

  1. derived from *h₂ep-
  2. inherited from *apô
  3. inherited from *apō
  4. inherited from apa
  5. inherited from ape
  6. suffixed as apery — “ape + ery

Definitions

  1. A place where apes are kept.

    • If you have a hippopotamus major in your brain, you are no ape, though you had four hands, no feet, and were more apish than the apes of all aperies.
  2. The practice of aping (copying)

  3. apish behavior.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for apery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA