Monkey
21monkey — noun (plural monkeys) 1》 a small to medium sized primate typically having a long tail and living in trees in tropical countries. [Families Cebidae and Callitrichidae (New World), and Cercopithecidae (Old World).] 2》 a mischievous person,… …
22monkey — mon|key1 [ mʌŋki ] noun count * 1. ) an animal with a long tail that climbs trees and uses its hands in the same way that people do 2. ) INFORMAL someone, especially a child who behaves badly but in a funny way rather than in an annoying way: Ooh …
23monkey — [16] No one is too sure where monkey came from. Spanish has mono ‘monkey’, and Old Italian had monno ‘monkey’, both probably borrowed from Arabic maimūn ‘monkey’, and it could be that an ancestor of these was borrowed into Low German and given… …
24monkey — 1. n. a playful child. (Also a term of address.) □ Come here, you little monkey! □ Hey, monkey, where are you going? 2. n. a drug addiction. (Drugs. See also have a monkey on one’s back.) □ That monkey of mine is getting hungry again …
25monkey — [16] No one is too sure where monkey came from. Spanish has mono ‘monkey’, and Old Italian had monno ‘monkey’, both probably borrowed from Arabic maimūn ‘monkey’, and it could be that an ancestor of these was borrowed into Low German and given… …
26monkey — ‘God help thee, poor monkey,’ says Lady Macbeth to her son, demonstrating a typical use of ‘monkey’ to a child or young person. Charlotte Brontë has ‘What do you want, you little monkey?’ addressed to a girl aged six in Villette. In Scenes of… …
27monkey — n. 1) a howler; rhesus; ring tailed; spider monkey 2) a horde, troop of monkeys 3) (misc.) (colloq.) to make a monkey (out) of smb. ( to make a fool of smb. ) * * * [ mʌŋkɪ] rhesus ring tailed spider monkey troop of monkeys a horde a howler (misc …
28monkey — I. noun (plural monkeys) Etymology: probably of Low German origin; akin to Moneke, name of an ape, probably of Romance origin; akin to Old Spanish mona monkey Date: circa 1530 1. a nonhuman primate mammal with the exception usually of the lemurs… …
29monkey — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. simian, primate, ape; imitator, mimic. See animal, imitation. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. primate, lemur, anthropoid ape; see animal 2 . Types of monkeys include: marmoset, tamarin; capuchin, squirrel,… …
30monkey's — n British a damn. A word invariably heard as part of the dismissive or defiant expressions don t give/care a monkey s . The term is an abbreviated form of undefined but presumably offensive phrases such as monkey s fart/fuck/balls . ► I m sure… …
