单词 | monkey-like |
释义 | monkey-likeadj.adv. Resembling a monkey in appearance or behaviour. Also as adv. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [adjective] > like a monkey monkey-like1597 puggish1741 the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [adverb] > in manner of a monkey monkey-like1597 monkeyishly1923 1597 R. Johnson 2nd Pt. Famous Hist. Seauen Champions 4 The carping malice of mocking iesters, that..scoffe commonly at that they cannot mend, censuring all thinges, doing nothing, but (monkey like) make apish iests at any thinge they see in Print. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Pierre du Coignet, a Monkie-like Image of stone in our Ladies Church at Paris. 1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) i. 36 If any looks to me, I think they say to themselves, what an odd monkey-like creature is that? 1856 T. B. Macaulay Johnson in Biographies (1860) 99 The master was often provoked by the monkey-like impertinence of the pupil. 1884 Pall Mall Budget 22 Aug. 14/2 Brown urchins swarm up trees monkeylike. 1902 Man 2 57 The lips are of normal thickness, and the face is prognathous and monkey-like. 1995 Daily Tel. 7 Apr. 3/3 Mr Williams was the talk of Snowdonia for bagging..a gentle 4ft-long ruffed lemur from Madagascar—a monkey-like creature which prefers bananas to sheep. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.adv.1597 |
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