Or it could be:
QUOTE (Webster's Dictionary)
Main Entry: 1ape
Pronunciation: 'Ap
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English apa; akin to Old High German affo ape
Date: before 12th century
1 a : MONKEY; especially : one of the larger tailless or short-tailed Old World forms b : any of two families (Pongidae and Hylobatidae) of large tailless semierect primates (as the chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, or gibbon) -- called also anthropoid, anthropoid ape
2 a : MIMIC b : a large uncouth person
- ape·like /'Ap-"lIk/ adjective