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apery

English

Etymology

ape +? -ery

Noun

apery (countable and uncountable, plural aperies)

  1. A place where apes are kept.
    • 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies Chapter 4
      If you have a hippopotamus major in your brain, you are no ape, though you had four hands, no feet, and were more apish than the apes of all aperies.
  2. The practice of aping; an apish action.
    • Every object, whether the growth of nature or the work of man, was neat and artificial. It pleased me far better, than if the houses and gardens, and pleasure fields, had been in a nobler taste: for this nobler taste would have been mere apery.

Translations

Anagrams

  • Payer, Peary, payer, peary, praye, rapey, repay

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ampery

English

Etymology

From amper +? -y.

Adjective

ampery (comparative more ampery, superlative most ampery)

  1. (Britain dialectal) Covered with pimples.
  2. (Britain dialectal) Weak; unhealthy; beginning to decay.

Related terms

  • amper

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