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Definition monkey

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Dutch monnekijn, or Middle Low German Moneke, name of the son of Martin the Ape in Reynard the Fox, a diminutive based off Old Spanish mona (“mona monkey”), shortening of mamona, variant of maimón, perhaps through Turkish maymun (“monkey”), from Arabic ????????‎ (maym?n, “baboon”). Compare Old French Monequin.

Noun

monkey (plural monkeys)

  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.
  2. (informal) Any nonhuman primate, including apes.
  3. (informal) A mischievous child.
  4. A dance move popular in the 1960s.
  5. (Britain, slang) Five hundred pounds sterling; (US, dated) five hundred dollars.
  6. (slang) A person or the role of the person on the sidecar platform of a motorcycle involved in sidecar racing.
  7. (slang) A person with minimal intelligence and/or an unattractive appearance
  8. (blackjack) A face card.
  9. (slang) 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. (historical) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
  12. (slang) A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
  13. A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, informal) To meddle; to mess (with).
  2. (transitive) To mimic; to ape.

Results 54 Words with the letters MONKEY

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MOUNTEBANKERY 28
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KREMLINOLOGY 26
MONEYMAKINGS 28
MONKEYSHINES 25
11 letter words with the letters MONKEY ↑
COCKNEYISMS 27
LYMPHOKINES 27
MONEYMAKERS 24
MONEYMAKING 27
MONKEYSHINE 24
10 letter words with the letters MONKEY ↑
COCKNEYISM 26
LYMPHOKINE 26
MONEYMAKER 23
MONKEYPODS 24
9 letter words with the letters MONKEY ↑
MONKEYING 22
MONKEYPOD 23
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MONKEYED 19
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MONKERY 17
MONKEYS 17
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MONKEY 16
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MONEY 11
4 letter words with the letters MONKEY ↑
KENO 9
MENO 8
MOKE 11
MONK 12
MONY 10
NOME 8
OMEN 8
YOKE 10
3 letter words with the letters MONKEY ↑
EON 4
KEN 8
KEY 9
KYE 9
MEN 7
MON 7
NOM 7
OKE 7
ONE 4
YEN 6
YOK 9
YOM 8
YON 6
2 letter words with the letters MONKEY ↑
EM 5
EN 3
ME 5
MO 5
MY 7
NE 3
NO 3
OE 2
OM 5
ON 3
OY 4
YE 4
YO 4

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