apery
noun
apish behavior; mimicry.
aperies
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pluralof apery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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.
From The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby by Warwick Goble
He sometimes spoke, with a certain zeal, of my starting a Periodical: Why not lift up some kind of war-flag against the obese platitudes, and sickly superstitious aperies and impostures of the time?
From Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle
I think thou art mad! with Domine, labia aperies.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by William Carew Hazlitt
Well, mark then, and hearken once for all, Or else hear it again thou never shall; My book, I say, began with Domine, labia aperies.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by William Carew Hazlitt
I trow it began with Domine labia, aperies.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by William Carew Hazlitt
