Aper vs Aped - What's the difference?

aper | aped |

As a noun aper

is someone who apes something.

As a verb aped is

(ape).

aper

English

Noun

(en noun)

Someone who apes something

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Synonyms

* imitator

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aped

English

Verb

(head)

(ape)

Anagrams

ape

English

(wikipedia 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.

Hyponyms

* See also

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.

Derived terms

Adjective

(-)

Wild; crazy.

We were ape over the new look.

He went ape when he heard the bad news.

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