ape vs whacker

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. 

whacker

noun
  • One who, or something which, whacks. 

  • Synonym of whopper (“an outrageous or blatant lie”) 

  • Synonym of whopper (“anything large”) 

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