ape vs tagati

ape

noun
  • One who apes; a foolish imitator. 

  • Any such primate other than a human. 

  • A primate of the clade Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail. 

  • An uncivilized person. 

verb
  • To imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly. 

  • To behave like an ape. 

adj
  • Wild; crazy. 

tagati

noun
  • In South African English, a wizard, witch, or a spiteful person who operates in secret to harm others or who uses poisons and familiar spirits to carry out harmful deeds. 

How often have the words ape and tagati occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )