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APISH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does apish mean?
• APISH (adjective)
The adjective APISH has 1 sense:
1. being or given to servile imitation
Familiarity information: APISH used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being or given to servile imitation
Synonyms:
apelike; apish
Similar:
imitative (marked by or given to imitation)
Context examples
He now flew into a very great passion, and, suspecting the company who had come in the night before, he went to look after them, but they were all off; so he swore that he never again would take in such a troop of vagabonds, who ate a great deal, paid no reckoning, and gave him nothing for his trouble but their apish tricks.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
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