total she-ape
- noun
- Slur
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- She felt embarrassed when she realized she had behaved like a total she-ape during the meeting.
Examples
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Calling someone a total she-ape is rude and disrespectful.
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Everyone was talking about how she acted like a total she-ape at the wedding.
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After tripping over her words, she joked that she felt like a total she-ape.
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Don't be such a total she-ape!
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She acted like a total she-ape at the party.
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After making a few mistakes in her presentation, she jokingly referred to herself as a total she-ape.
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Everyone chuckled when she stumbled over her words and declared herself a total she-ape.
Synonyms
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9.9
An insulting name for a woman said to make her feel small or silly
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9.9
A silly person who annoys others and causes trouble
A person who acts very foolishly and makes many mistakes
A person who is very foolish and bad at what they do
A person who acts very foolishly and cannot do simple tasks
A rude person who annoys or hurts other people
Antonyms
How Foolish
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly built from 'total' (complete/utter) modifying the derogatory noun 'she-ape' (a woman compared to an ape); together they yield 'completely foolish or inept woman'. The intensifier + noun composition is a standard, transparent pattern that a B1 learner who knows the constituent meanings can readily infer.
Etymology
Total she-ape may come from a simple image: the word she plus ape, where 'ape' means a clumsy or silly animal, so someone called a she-ape is seen as acting awkward or foolish. That's why the phrase means 'an embarrassingly foolish or inept woman', but it is rude and disrespectful.