Apery
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A place where apes are kept. countable, uncountable
"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 act of mimicking; imitative behavior wordnet
- 3 The practice of aping (copying) countable, uncountable
- 4 apish behavior. countable, uncountable
"Every object, whether the growth of nature or the work of man, was neat and artificial. It pleased me far better, than if the houses and gardens, and pleasure fields, had been in a nobler taste: for this nobler taste would have been mere apery."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From ape + -ery.
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