Silly vs Apeth - What's the difference?
silly | apeth |
(label) Pitiable; deserving of compassion; helpless.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , I.vi:
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
(label) Simple, unsophisticated, ordinary; rustic, ignorant.
* 1633 , (John Donne), "Sapho to Philænis":
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
Foolish, showing a lack of good sense and wisdom; frivolous, trifling.
Irresponsible, showing irresponsible behaviors.
Semiconscious, witless.
(label) Of a fielding position, very close to the batsman; closer than short.
Simple, not intelligent, unrefined.
* {{quote-book, year=1935, author=
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(label) Happy; fortunate; blessed.
(label) Harmless; innocent; inoffensive.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
(colloquial) A silly person; a fool.
(colloquial) A mistake.
A halfpennyworth.
* 2003: Jeanne Lawrence, A Glint of Black Stocking: The Royal Infirmary , iUniverse, p.162,
(Northern England, informal) An affectionate term for a silly or foolish person.
* 2003 : Chris Brown, Of Ghosts and Faeries - A Firefighter's Tale , WritersPrintShop 2004, p.61
(archaic) Third-person singular]] simple present of [[ape#Verb, to ape.
* 1849: Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments , Wiley, p.50,
* 1885: Richard Francis Burton (translator''), ''Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Kessinger Publishing (2003), p.155,
* 2000: Richard J Carr, Wyndedanse: A Royal Chronicle of 17th Century Siam , Xlibris Corporation, p.187,
In archaic terms the difference between silly and apeth
is that silly is pitiable; deserving of compassion; helpless while apeth is third-person singular simple present of to ape.As an adjective silly
is pitiable; deserving of compassion; helpless.As a verb apeth is
third-person singular simple present of to ape.silly
English
Adjective
(er)- A silly man, in simple weedes forworne, / And soild with dust of the long dried way; / His sandales were with toilesome trauell torne, / And face all tand with scorching sunny ray
- After long storms with which my silly bark was tossed sore.
- The silly buckets on the deck.
- For, if we justly call each silly man'' / A ''little island , What shall we call thee than?
- A fourth man, in a silly habit.
- All that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.
George Goodchild
- (Chaucer)
- The silly virgin strove him to withstand.
- A silly , innocent hare murdered of a dog.
Derived terms
* sillily (adverb) * silly seasonAntonyms
* ("playful"): piousSynonyms
* ("playful"): charmingNoun
(sillies)Anagrams
* * * 1000 English basic wordsapeth
English
Etymology 1
Abbreviation of '', itself an abbreviation of ''halfpennyworth .Noun
(en noun)- “Oh Harry, it doesn't matter an 'apeth we're here to see Joni?' “Hello luv,” Dad walked in. “Hello Dad.” “Had a good week then?”
- Oi, that water's not free, y'know. It has to be pumped up here yer daft ’apeth . It's not a bloody river.
Etymology 2
From .Verb
(head)- Fashion, the parasite of Rank, apeth faults and failings, Until the general Taste depraved hath warped its sense of beauty.
- I know that whoso apeth a stronger than he, wearieth himself and haply cometh to ruin.
- "The way you talk now, Richard, apeth the voice of the interloper."