Crossword clues for aping
aping
- Taking off, aircraft's beginning to make high-pitched sound
- Taking after
- Pretending to be
- Mimic's forte
- Acting like
- Copycat's activity
- Impersonator's skill
- Doing an impression of
- What Little is big on
- Ripping off
- Mimic's specialty
- Making fun of
- Making a mockery of
- Impressionist's forte
- Impersonator's forte
- Doing like
- Mimic's thing
- Making like
- Making an impression?
- Little's talent
- Impressionist's work
- Impressionist's art
- Impersonator's specialty
- Impersonator's action
- Imitator's activity
- Doing a takeoff
- Being like
- Being impressive?
- Doing a takeoff on
- Being a copycat
- Burlesque activity
- Mimicking mockingly
- Mimicry
- Mimetic behavior
- Mock-portraying
- Imitating like a chimp
- Taking off on
- Copying
- Impressionistic work?
- Mimic's ability
- Following closely?
- Mimic's activity
- Little's talent (5)
- Frye activity
- Parroting
- Mocker's ploy
- Little's forte
- Frye's forte
- Rich Little's forte
- Doing an impersonation
- David Frye's forte
- Putting on a Little act
- Little activity
- Little action
- Mockery, of a sort
- Imitation silver fastener imported
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aping
Ape \Ape\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Aped; p. pr. & vb. n. Aping.]
To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or
follow servilely or irrationally. ``How he apes his sire.''
--Addison.
The people of England will not ape the fashions they
have never tried.
--Burke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
aping
"imitation, mimicry," 1680s, verbal noun from ape (v.).
Wiktionary
aping
n. foolish imitation or mimicry vb. (present participle of ape English)
Usage examples of "aping".
But Thomas was back floundering in the void of his nameless ness mocked by his own presumptuous aims and apings.