abed English
Adverb
( en adverb)
In bed, or on the bed; confined to bed.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616),(Twelfth Night), II, iii
- Not to be abed after midnight
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title=[http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1519647W “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days], chapter=Ep./4/2
, passage=The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed .}}
To childbed
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616), (Titus Andronicus), IV, ii
- "I mean, she's brought a-bed "
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aped English
Verb
(head)
(ape)
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ape Noun
( en noun)
A primate of the clade Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.
Any such primate other than a human.
(derogatory) An uncivilised person.
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Derived terms
* ape-baboon
* ape-bearer
* apedom
* apehood
* apelike
* apeling
* apely
* apeman
* apeshit
* go ape
* naked ape
Verb
( ap)
To behave like an ape.
To imitate; mimic.
* 1961 , J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês'' of Plato," ''Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association , vol. 92, p. 454,
- It is not conceived as a mere “aping ” in externals nor as an enacting in the sense of assuming a foreign role.
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Adjective
( -)
Wild; crazy.
- We were ape over the new look.
- He went ape when he heard the bad news.
See also
* monkey
* troop (collective noun)
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