† Johnanapesn.
Obsolete. rare.
(A name given to) a person possessing or exhibiting qualities or behaviour associated with (tame) apes or monkeys, esp. in playing tricks or acting in an impudent or impertinent manner; = jackanapes n. 3.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Pongidae (ape)
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jackanapes1528
Johnanapes1633
man-monkey1651
ape1699
pygmy1699
Simia1719
great ape1771
anthropoid1861
pithecoid1874
man-ape1878
pongid1949
pithecine1962
1633 J. Shirley Bird in Cage ii. i. sig. Dv Roll. If I were at leisure, I would make you shew trickes now. Mo. Do I look like a Johnanapes?
1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding v. ii. in Comedies & Trag. 139 He would sit upon's tail before them, and frown, like John a Napes when the Pope is nam'd.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019).
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