Definitions for apish

apish ap·ish

Spelling: [ey-pish]
IPA: /ˈeɪ pɪʃ/

Apish is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in apish (ahips).

Definitions for apish

adjective

  1. having the qualities, appearance, or ways of an ape.
  2. slavishly imitative.
  3. foolishly affected; silly.

Origin of apish

First recorded in 1525-35; ape + -ish1

Examples for apish

They got noisy, cheered every apish witticism of the lecturer—oh!

The Negro, apish in his affinity to his prototype in a "lynching bee," is beneath contempt.

But this apish monkey fashion of effeminate niceness, out upon it!

At fifteen or sixteen, she affected, both in dress and manners, to ape such of the quality as were most apish.

His neck and shoulders were brutal, like those of some apish god.

This could not be relaxed, for he was full of the most apish tricks.

Do you see how it imitates the divine in an apish sort of way?

Neither the squalid Picts nor the apish Atlanteans have any contact with other tribes or peoples.

To the west the apish Atlanteans are beginning the long climb upward.

Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks.

Word Value for apish
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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