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apish

/ey-pish/US // ˈeɪ pɪʃ //UK // (ˈeɪpɪʃ) //

猿人,猿猴,猿类,猿

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having the qualities, appearance, or ways of an ape.
    • : slavishly imitative.
    • : foolishly affected; silly.

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Examples

  • He came shuffling forward with a hundred apish conges and chers milors, to express his happiness at seeing Lord Dalgarno again.

  • He was broadly built, with long apish arms and a mighty chest, but with lean loins and thin bandy legs.

  • Vanity and the desire of showing off play no small part in the wrongdoings of apes and apish men and women.

  • That apish-looking man there, with the long beard and the loose trousers—he is the woman's brother.

  • Even Plutarch himself laments his daughter for the little apish tricks of her infancy.