monkey

Meaning of monkey

noun
  1. Any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, 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.
  2. Any nonhuman simian primate, including apes.
    Chimpanzees are known to form bands to hunt and kill other monkeys.
  3. A mischievous child.
    She's a cheeky monkey.
  4. A dance move popular in the 1960s.
  5. Five hundred pounds sterling; five hundred dollars.
  6. A person or the role of the person on the sidecar platform of a motorcycle involved in sidecar racing.
  7. A person with minimal intelligence and/or an unattractive appearance
  8. A face card.
  9. A menial employee who does a repetitive job, as in code monkey, grease monkey, phone monkey, powder monkey.
  10. The weight or hammer of a pile driver; a heavy mass of iron, which, being raised high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging.
  11. A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
  12. A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
  13. A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.
  14. A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.
  15. A black person.
verb
  1. To meddle; to mess (with).
    Please don't monkey with the controls if you don't know what you're doing.
  2. To mimic; to ape.

Information about monkey

  • The plural form of monkey is: monkeys.
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Hyphenation of monkey

mon-key

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • monkey is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

monkey synonyms

Meaning imp:

imp, scamp, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag

Meaning tamper:

tamper, fiddle

Meaning putter:

putter, potter, tinker

Meaning :

interfere

Translation of monkey

Words that rhyme with monkey

Jankey, Sankey, hankey, swankey, dinkey, doohinkey, pinkey, donkey, honkey, spidermonkey, undonkey, zonkey, zebonkey, zebronkey, turnkey, underturnkey, Hunkey, Pamunkey, flunkey, hunkey, punkey, unkey

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