Definitions
represent in or produce a caricature of
Word origin
From Middle English ape, from Old English apa (“ape, monkey”), from Proto-West Germanic *apō, from Proto-Germanic *apô (“monkey, ape”), possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water”), compare Proto-Celtic *abū (“river”) (hence English place name Avon, Irish abha, Welsh afon), if the word originally referred to a "water sprite".
Used in a sentence
“Of vvhat texte thou proveſt hell / vvill a nother prove purgatory / a nother lymbo patrum / and a nother the aſſumpcion of oure ladi: And a nother ſhall prove of the ſame texte that an Ape hath a tayle.”
“Animalistic dehumanisation, 'simianisation' and the animalising of black bodies through metaphorically likening these individuals to 'baboons,' 'monkeys' or 'apes' reveals racialised animality discourse in South Africa.”
“I could not think of a better representation of the good in this world, let alone this r***^([sic]) band of apes on Reddit.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer12 curated clues
01“Chimp, for example”3 letters
02“Gorilla, for example”3 letters
03“Imitate closely”3 letters
04“Imitative copycat”3 letters
05“Large primate”3 letters
06“Mimic”3 letters
07“Mimic, as behavior”3 letters
08“Monkey relative”3 letters
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