monkey
Pronunciation: /ˈmʌŋki/
The English word “monkey” has 20 meanings listed here.
noun
- 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.
- Any simian, including humans.
- Any simian primate other than hominids; any monkey or ape.
- A naughty or mischievous person, especially a child.
- The person in the motorcycle sidecar in sidecar racing.
- Synonym of idiot: a person of minimal intelligence.
- Synonym of uggo: an unattractive person, especially one whose face supposedly resembles a monkey's.
- Synonym of puppet: a person dancing to another's tune, a person controlled or directed by another.
- A menial employee who does a repetitive job supposedly requiring minimal intelligence.
- A black person.
- A penis.
- A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
- The vessel in which a mess receives its full allowance of grog.
- The weight of a pile driver or drop hammer.
- A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.
- Synonym of five hundred, especially (UK) 500 pounds sterling or (US, dated) 500 dollars.
- Synonym of face card.
- A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.
- A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
- A dance popularized by Major Lance in 1963, now usually only its upper-body dance move involving exaggerated drumming motions.
Etymology
Uncertain: * May be derived from monk + -ey (diminutive suffix), * or borrowed from Middle Low German Moneke, the name of the son of Martin the Ape in Reynard the Fox (which may represent an unattested colloquial Middle Low German *moneke, *moneken), itself of uncertain origin: ** Possibly derived from a Romance term represented by Late Middle French monne (whence Modern French mone (“monkey”))…
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