monty
Meaning of monty
noun
- the full amount expected, desired, or possible.
when conducting a funeral he wears the full monty: frock coat, top hat and a Victorian cane
- a striptease performance involving full nudity, especially by a man.
the famous final scene where the characters do the full monty and strip naked
1970s: of uncertain origin. Among various (unsubstantiated) theories, one cites the phrase the full Montague Burton, apparently meaning ‘a complete three-piece suit’ (from the name of a tailor of made-to-measure clothing in the early 20th century); another recounts the possibility of a military usage, the full monty being ‘the full cooked English breakfast’ insisted upon by Field Marshal Montgomery. In full monty (sense 2) the term was popularized by the 1997 film The Full Monty .
Information about monty
- It is a name.
- The plural form of monty is: monties.
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Hyphenation of monty
monty
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- monty is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Anagrams of monty
Words that rhyme with monty
haplodonty, hypsodonty, megadonty, microdonty, selenodonty, triconodonty, jonty, Monty, commonty, coonty, ponty, Pronty, affronty
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