Definitions for monkey

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monkey mon·key

Spelling: [muhng-kee]

IPA: /ˈmʌŋ ki/

Monkey is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in monkey (ekmnoy).

Definitions for monkey

noun

1. any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
2. the fur of certain species of such long-haired animals.
3. a person likened to such an animal, as a mischievous, agile child or a mimic.
4. a dance, deriving from the twist, in which the partners move their hands as if climbing a pole and jerk their heads back and forth.
5. Slang. an addiction to narcotics.
6. any of various mechanical devices, as the ram of a pile driver.
7. Coal Mining. a small passageway or opening.
8. British Slang. the sum of 500 pounds.
9. Australian Informal. a sheep.

Idioms

1. a monkey on one's back, Slang. an addiction to a drug or drugs; narcotic dependency. an enduring and often vexing habit or urge. a burdensome problem, situation, or responsibility; personal affliction or hindrance.
2. make a monkey out of, to cause to appear ridiculous; make a fool of. Also, make a monkey of.

verb (used with object)

1. to imitate; ape; mimic.
2. to mock.

verb (used without object)

1. Informal. to play or trifle idly; fool (often followed by around or with).

Origin of monkey

1520-30; apparently Low German; compare Middle Low German Moneke (name of son of Martin the Ape in the story of Reynard), equivalent to mone- (akin to obsolete French monne she-ape, Spanish,

Examples for monkey

The monkey avatar stared back at me, its tongue lolling out of its mouth.

This has occurred with bean bag chairs, children's sweaters, and the Coco The monkey Teething Toy.

We can only say that what is fittest for the monkey is ill-fitted for man, and the reverse.

One day she hit the shell in the wrong place--and they're still looking for the monkey.

For why should the loss of his tail have resulted in the changed chemistry of the monkey's brain?

He was often called the monkey Man because of the primates and other wild animals he kept on his 21-acre property.

And where is his monkey that first lost the prehensile power to climb trees?

I'm forty-four, independent, free, a slave to no man nor monkey.

By the time I discovered I had an impostor, “monkey boy” had been actively tweeting for weeks.

The monkey seemed to be sticking his tongue out at me in defiance.