apery

[ ey-puh-ree ]

noun

, plural ap·er·ies.

1. apish behavior; mimicry.
2. a silly trick.

apery

/ ˈeɪpərɪ /

noun

1. imitative behaviour; mimicry

Word History and Origins

Origin of apery¹

First recorded in 1610–20; ape + -ery

Example Sentences

She got her substitute vocabulary word right but misspelled “apery” to conclude the day’s action.

From Washington Post

The only difference between him and most former presidential candidates is that his apery is more apparent.

From Time

It is a pallid apery of the academic comedies that the English, frankly, do better.

From Time Magazine Archive

As Stenhouse had formerly indicated, no principle has been discovered to which the purgative properties can be attributed, unless it be a green oleo-resin turned red by nitric acid, obtained from the fruit by Apery.

From Project Gutenberg

Schoppe, the satiric chorus of Jean Paul's romance of Titan, makes his appearance at a certain masked ball, carrying in front of him a glass case, in which the ball is remasked, repeated, and again reflected in a mirror behind, by a set of puppets, ludicrously aping the apery of the courtiers, whose whole life and outward manifestation was but a body-mask mechanically moved with the semblance of real life and action.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• clone
• impersonation
• impression
• mimicry
• parody
• reflection
• replica
• reproduction