Monkey

Quick meaning: Monkey is a noun meaning (cladistically) Any simian, including humans.

Meaning

(cladistically) Any simian, including humans.

More Meanings

1. (loosely, sometimes proscribed) Any simian primate other than hominids; any monkey or ape.
2. (figurative, generally derogatory) A human considered to resemble monkeys in some way, including:
3. The weight of a pile driver or drop hammer.
4. (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.
5. (slang, vulgar, uncommon) A penis.
6. (historical) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
7. (slang, nautical) The vessel in which a mess receives its full allowance of grog.

Example Sentences

They thought of, I don’t know, monkeys and caipirinhas and samba.”

Chimpanzees are known to form bands to hunt and kill other monkeys.

A thousandth of a million squid or two monkeys Or a whole fifty scores

Someone handed me a monkey of grog. I forced myself to sip it, not down it.

Word Forms

• monkeys
• monkies
• monkeying
• monkeyed
• monkied

Synonyms for monkey

Depending on context, synonyms include interfere, fiddle, rascal, scamp, rapscallion, scallywag.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include imp, potter, tinker, scalawag, scallywag, tamper.

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