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A monkey.

Etymology[]

Template:Gml[[Category:Template:Gml derivations|Monkey]] Moneke (cf. Old French Monequin), name of the son of Martin the Ape in Reynard the Fox, from Old Spanish mona 'mona monkey', shortening of mamona, variant of maimón, from Arabic ميمون (maimūn) 'monkey', literally 'blessed', used to ward off the monkey's bad luck.

Pronunciation[]

Noun[]

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Singular
Monkey

Plural
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Monkey ({{{1}}})

  1. Any of several members of the infra-order Simiiformes of primates, generally smaller than the apes, and distinguished from them by having a tail and cheek pouches.
  2. (informal) A mischievous child.
    Stop misbehaving, you little monkey!
  3. (British, slang) Five-hundred pounds sterling.
  4. (slang) A person or the role of the person on the sidecar platform of a motorcycle involved in sidecar racing.
  5. (slang) A person with minimal inteligence and/or (bad) looks .
  6. (rare, pejorative, slang) A dark-skinned person, especially a person of, or primarily of, Negro descent. See also nigger and/or jigaboo.
  7. (slang) A face card in blackjack

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Verb[]

Infinitive
to Monkey

Third person singular
monkeys

Simple past
monkeyed or monkied

Past participle
-

Present participle
monkeying

to Monkey (third-person singular simple present monkeys, present participle monkeying, simple past and past participle monkeyed or monkied)

  1. (informal) To meddle; to mess with; to interfere; to fiddle.
    Please don't monkey with the controls if you don't know what you're doing.

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