apeth

plural apeths

1. A halfpennyworth.

   “Oh Harry, it doesn't matter an 'apeth we're here to see Joni?' “Hello luv,” Dad walked in. “Hello Dad.” “Had a good week then?”

   2003, Jeanne Lawrence, A Glint of Black Stocking: The Royal Infirmary, iUniverse, page 162

2. Northern EnglandendearinginformalA silly or foolish person.

   Oi, that water's not free, y'know. It has to be pumped up here yer daft ’apeth. It's not a bloody river.

   2003, Chris Brown, Of Ghosts and Faeries - A Firefighter's Tale, WritersPrintShop 2004, page 61

1. archaicindicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of ape

   The way you talk now, Richard, apeth the voice of the interloper.

   2000, Richard J Carr, Wyndedanse: A Royal Chronicle of 17th Century Siam, Xlibris Corporation, page 187

   2 more examples

   Fashion, the parasite of Rank, apeth faults and failings, / Until the general Taste depraved hath warped its sense of beauty.

   1842, Martin Farquhar Tupper, “Of Beauty”, in Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated (Second Series), London: J[ohn] Hatchard and Son, […], →OCLC, stanza 15, page 90

   I know that whoso apeth a stronger than he, wearieth himself and haply cometh to ruin.

   1885, Richard Francis Burton (translator), Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Kessinger Publishing (2003), page 155