having the qualities, appearance, or ways of an ape
2.
slavishly imitative
3.
foolishly affected; silly
Derived forms
apishly
adverb
apishness
noun
Word origin
[1525–35; ape + -ish1]This word is first recorded in the period 1525–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: evangelical, function, inflection, secure, society-ish is a suffix used to form adjectives from nouns, with the sense of “belonging to”(British; Danish; English; Spanish); “after the manner of,” “having the characteristics of,” “like” (babyish; girlish; mulish); “addicted to,” “inclined or tending to” (bookish; freakish); “near or about” (fiftyish; sevenish)