Monkeyess
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Monkeyess is a noun meaning (archaic) A female monkey.
Meaning
(archaic) A female monkey.
Example Sentences
Three urchins were feeding a monkey and a monkeyess candy.
Monkeys are the best mimickers, the more civilized and refined imitate them in extracting labial sweetness from the monkeyesses.
One of the rajahs of India spent 100,000 rupees in the marriage of two monkeys. […] It was twelve days before the monkey and monkeyess were free from their round of gay attentions.
Darwin’s Monkey.—If Adam’s father was a monkey, / And Eve’s mother a monkeyess; / Then mastiffs firstly sprang from poodles, / A kennel of sprightly yankey doodles; / And that accounts for style and dress.
Word Forms
- monkeyesses
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