Other forms: mimics
To mimic is to copy somebody's voice or manner, often to amuse. Mimic the accent, a good mimic, mimicked him perfectly.
It is imitation with an audience: mimicking is done to be recognised. As a noun a mimic is somebody good at it. In biology, mimicry is when a harmless species evolves to look like a dangerous one — the hoverfly and the wasp being the standard example. Note that the spelling adds a k before -ed and -ing, as in mimicked.
1verbmimicTo copy somebody's voice or manner.
“My son loves to mimic his teacher's voice to make his sister laugh.”
2noungoodSomebody good at imitating others.
“My brother is a brilliant mimic and can copy any teacher's voice.”
mimic is an imitating.
Also accepted in games: imitate
Latin mimicus comes from Greek mimikos, from mimos, an actor or imitator. Mime and pantomime come from the same imitation.
Ancient Greek
μῑμικός — belonging to mimes
Latin
mīmicus
English, today
mimic
Built from
From Latin mīmicus, from Ancient Greek μῑμικός (“belonging to mimes”), from μῖμος (“imitator, actor”); see mime.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Sharper Verbs