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Answer for the clue "Little or Frye ", 4 letters:
aper

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n. someone who copies the words or behavior of another [syn: copycat , imitator , emulator , ape ]

Usage examples of aper.

Docles seized the opportunity, accusing the Praetorian Prefect, a man called Arrius Aper, of having poisoned him, and executing him on the spot.

Docles seized the opportunity, accusing the Praetorian Prefect, a man called Arrius Aper, of having poisoned him, and executing him on the spot.

If Bister were one of these fabulous apers – an Xik reconstructed by surgery and every available form of psycho-training to pass as a Confed man – that would explain a lot.

The administration of all affairs, civil as well as military, was devolved on Arrius Aper, the Praetorian praefect, who to the power of his important office added the honor of being father-in-law to Numerian.

The ramjets were hooked into the last pair of nerve trunks, the nerves which once moved his legs, and dozens of finer nerves in those trunks sensed and regulated fuel feed, ram temperature, differential acceleration, intake aper- ture dilation, and spark pulse.

Maybe these planet bound settlers were more open to such imaginative flights – as the existence of an aper among them – than were the service officers trained to meet the nonproven with wary disbelief.