APE

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English apa; akin to Old High German affo ~ Date: before 12th century 1. monkey , any of two families (Pongidae and Hylobatidae) of large tailless semierect primates (as the chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, or gibbon), 2. mimic , a large uncouth person, ~like adjective II. transitive verb (~d; aping) Date: 1632 to copy closely but often clumsily and ineptly, see: copy ~r noun III. adjective Date: circa 1955 crazy , wild