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naked ape

noun

Etymology

From naked + ape, reportedly coined by Desmond Morris in his book The Naked Ape (1967).

  1. derived from *h₂ep-✻
  2. inherited from *apô✻
  3. inherited from *apō✻
  4. inherited from apa
  5. inherited from ape
  6. compounded as naked ape — “naked + ape”

Definitions

  1. A human being.

    • What, after all, can a poor naked ape do?
    • Humans are unique among the monkeys and apes in lacking a dense layer of hair covering their bodies.
    • Anheuser-Busch ads have played up the similarities between ape and naked ape—with the lower primates usually looking better.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for naked ape. 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