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Meaning monkey meaning

What does monkey mean?

Definitions in simple English

monkey Noun

— A monkey is a primate with a long tail that climbs trees. We saw Vervet monkeys in the Zoo.

monkey Verb

— If you monkey something, you make changes to it. I foolishly monkeyed with the control panel and it ended up exploding.

monkey

— noun any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians) — noun (= imp) one who is playfully mischievous — verb (= tamper, fiddle) play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly Someone tampered with the documents on my desk The reporter fiddle with the facts — verb (= muck about) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house

Synonyms monkey synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as monkey?

monkey English » English

ape primate simian scallywag scalawag mimic imitate fiddle tinker tarsier tamper take off scamp rascal rapscallion putter potter play a trick play a practical joke muck around muck about monkey around mock mess around marmoset imp fool around chimp apish apelike twiddle trifler trifle toy tamper with sport slyboots slag pin hole slag notch aperture rollick ram play monkeyish mime macaque load lemur langur jocko jackanapes

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Journey to the West

Topics monkey topics

What do people use monkey to talk about?

Universe, creation Animal Types of animals Mammal

Primate

What general words refer to primates?

primate ape monkey anthropoid

Social behavior Social activity

Humor

What words refer to something done humorously?

joke play a joke on prank play a prank on farce clowning fooling around tomfoolery buffoonery horseplay monkey business

Examples monkey examples

How do I use monkey in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The monkey got away.

I'm not talking to you; I'm talking to the monkey.

Pan is a monkey that can spread butter on bread.

But when the monkey came back, the tin cup was always empty.

The monkey came down.

A monkey is mature at a few years old.

It's not a pig; it's a monkey.

We saw the monkey at the zoo.

Don't monkey around with my papers.

A man can no more become a woman than a monkey can develop into a man.

He climbed up the tree like a monkey.

That's a picture of a monkey associated with the Year of the Monkey.

The fat woman was holding a monkey.

Hey, look, a three-headed monkey!

He was scared when the monkey jumped at him.

It is easy for a monkey to climb a tree.

A monkey is climbing up a tall tree.

The monkey climbed up a tree.

The child was feeding the monkey with the banana.

Movie subtitles

Uh, monkey ate six pies?

Now who's standing up to a two-year-old? Mm-hmm. All right, my little monkey.

Naughty monkey's got the cord looped round its neck.

I ain't saying it's turned nippy all of a sudden, but I ain't half glad I'm not a brass monkey.

The quadrumanous parents are surprised to see a monkey with no hair and no tail.

A small and distinguished monkey.

This monkey tried to run over me about it!

Looks like the ass of a monkey.

I thought I better put on a monkey suit.

Making a first-class, grade-A monkey out of me.

He's like a giraffe marrying a monkey.

Inspector, when are you going to let me out of this monkey cage?

I guess next time you leave big monkey alone, huh?

You'll never catch a monkey that way.

The Monkey works in wholesale, the Owl in retail.

Yeah. I thought I better put on a monkey suit.

You have a story in your lap and you let the Tribune scoop us, making a first-class, grade-A monkey out of me.

If this is a singing lesson, I'm a ring-tailed monkey.

I don't want you. I want that other monkey.

He wants the other monkey.

Listen monkey face, when you fired me, you fired the best news hound your filthy scandal sheet ever had.

That's a good monkey.

You know this monkey?

I knew they'd pull some monkey business.

Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!

Give this back to your monkey!

Why, you little powder monkey!

What's the noise all about, monkey?

I wonder how I'll look with that monkey haircut they give you there.

Say, I. why, this monkey won't sign for these monkeys.

It hobbled and swayed like a monkey.

Listen, monkey face, when you fired me.

Some monkey business was going on here that we want to find out about.

One can't monkey about with Scotland Yard men.

Or are you the proverbial monkey that fell from the tree?

I'm locking up in case the storm troopers start their monkey business again.

If I ever lay my two eyes on you again, I'm gonna walk right up to you and hammer on that monkey skull of yours till it rings like a Chinese gong.

News and current affairs

Putting a monkey in space may not have been the most exciting achievement, but the government was paying for it, so it happened.

In 1933 primatologists discovered a red-and-black colored monkey living in the canopy of West Africa's forests, which they named Miss Waldron's Red Colobus.

After searching for six years, a team of scientists have not been able to find any sign of the monkey, leading them to conclude that heavy logging in the region killed off the last member of the species.

It also took with it into oblivion an unknown number of parasite species that made the monkey their home - parasites that might have included viruses, bacteria, protozoans, fungi, tapeworms, and other gruesome creatures.

A monkey's mirror neurons are activated both when he himself is acting, say, taking a raisin from a tray, and when he is viewing another monkey (or the human experimenter) performing the same act.

Broca's region is the human counterpart of the monkey mirror-neuron area.

As both human and monkey mirror neurons code hand manipulation and facial gestures, some interesting hypotheses have emerged.

Fortunately, China's jailing of Liu Xiaobo will not, as we Chinese say, succeed in its effort to frighten the monkey by killing a chicken.

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