GORILLA

noun Etymology: New Latin, from Greek Gorillai, plural, a tribe of hairy women mentioned in an account of a voyage around Africa Date: 1847 a very large typically black-colored anthropoid ape ( Gorilla ~ ) of equatorial Africa that has a stocky body with broad shoulders and long arms and is less erect and has smaller ears than the chimpanzee, 2. an ugly or brutal man, thug , goon