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/ˈmʌŋki/ · noun
(strictly) A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails, and cheek pouches..
He had been visiting an area zoo when a monkey swung from its tree perch, swiped his glasses and hurled them into a hippo hole.
They thought of, I don’t know, monkeys and caipirinhas and samba.”
Following monkeys, apes, and other creatures in their habitats, these scientists turned their notes and observations into voluminous, quantitative data. […] Other examples of nonhuman self-domestication in the wild exist—for instance, the Zanzibar red colobus monkey diverged from the mainland African red colobus in similar ways during its island isolation—but bonobos are the closest and most relevant to us.
Chimpanzees are known to form bands to hunt and kill other monkeys.
Someone handed me a monkey of grog. I forced myself to sip it, not down it.
[I] gave her a monkey — just half my last thou — and started to earn some more.
A thousandth of a million squid or two monkeys Or a whole fifty scores
I was out rather late one night, when the foreman of my department, who owed me a grudge, abused me like a dog, and told me I might consider myself dismissed, and that I should be paid my wages in the morning. I don't know how I kept my hands off him, for my monkey was up; […]
Use mon key when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mon key means (strictly) A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails, and cheek pouches..
Common synonyms include monkey, five hundred, face card, interfere.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He had been visiting an area zoo when a monkey swung from its tree perch, swiped his glasses and hurled them into a hippo hole.
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