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M0388300 (mŭng′kē)n. pl. mon·keys 1. a. Any of various tailed primates of the suborder Anthropoidea, including the macaques, baboons, capuchins, and marmosets, and excluding the apes.b. A nonhuman ape. Not in scientific use.2. One who behaves in a way suggestive of a monkey, as a mischievous child or a mimic.3. The iron block of a pile driver.4. Slang A person who is mocked, duped, or made to appear a fool: They made a monkey out of him.5. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a person with dark skin.v. mon·keyed, mon·key·ing, mon·keys v.intr. Informal 1. To play, fiddle, trifle, or tamper with something: Who was monkeying with my cell phone?2. To behave in a mischievous or apish manner: Stop monkeying around!v.tr. To imitate or mimic; ape.Idiom: monkey on one's back1. An addiction to a drug.2. An object of persistent worry or obsession.

[Perhaps ultimately from Middle Low German Moneke, name of a young ape in the beast epic Reynke de Vos ("Reynard the Fox"), shortening of Simoneke, diminutive (used in punning reference to Latin sīmia, ape, monkey; see simian) of the Middle High German name Simon (equivalent to English Simeon Simon).]

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(ˈmʌŋkɪ) n1. (Animals) any of numerous long-tailed primates excluding the prosimians (lemurs, tarsiers, etc): comprise the families Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys), Cebidae (New World monkeys), and Callithricidae (marmosets). See Old World monkey, New World monkey2. (Animals) any primate except man3. a naughty or mischievous person, esp a child4. (Mechanical Engineering) the head of a pile-driver (monkey engine) or of some similar mechanical device5. (Nautical Terms) (modifier) nautical denoting a small light structure or piece of equipment contrived to suit an immediate purpose: a monkey foresail; a monkey bridge. 6. (Recreational Drugs) slang US and Canadian an addict's dependence on a drug7. slang a butt of derision; someone made to look a fool (esp in the phrase make a monkey of)8. (Gambling, except Cards) slang (esp in bookmaking) £5009. (Currencies) slang US and Canadian $50010. (Animals) slang archaic Austral a sheep11. give a monkey's slang Brit to care about or regard as important: who gives a monkey's what he thinks?. 12. have a monkey on one's back slang a. to be troubled by a persistent problemb. US and Canadian to be addicted to a drugvb13. (intr; usually foll by around, with, etc) to meddle, fool, or tinker14. (tr) rare to imitate; ape[C16: perhaps from Low German; compare Middle Low German Moneke name of the ape's son in the tale of Reynard the Fox]

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n., pl. –keys, v. 1. any mammal of two major groupings of Primates, the Old World monkeys or catarrhines, and the New World monkeys or platyrrhines, both characterized by flattened faces, binocular vision, and usu. long tails. 2. the fur of certain long-haired monkeys. 3. a. a mischievous, agile child. b. fool; dupe. v.i. 4. Informal. to trifle idly; fool (often fol. by around or with). v.t. 5. to imitate; mimic. Idioms: 1. make a monkey (out) of, to cause to appear ridiculous; make a fool of. 2. monkey on one's back, Slang. a. an addiction to a drug. b. a burdensome problem, situation, or responsibility. [1520–30; appar. < Low German; compare Middle Low German Moneke (name of son of Martin the Ape in the story of Reynard) =mone- (akin to Sp, Portuguese mono ape) + -ke diminutive suffix] mon′key•ish, adj. mon′key•ish•ly, adv. mon′key•ish•ness, n.

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(mŭng′kē) Any of various primates of medium size that have long tails. Most monkeys live in trees in tropical or subtropical regions. Baboons, macaques, mandrills, and marmosets are monkeys. Compare ape.

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Past participle: monkeyed
Gerund: monkeying

Imperative
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monkey

Present
I monkey
you monkey
he/she/it monkeys
we monkey
you monkey
they monkey

Preterite
I monkeyed
you monkeyed
he/she/it monkeyed
we monkeyed
you monkeyed
they monkeyed

Present Continuous
I am monkeying
you are monkeying
he/she/it is monkeying
we are monkeying
you are monkeying
they are monkeying

Present Perfect
I have monkeyed
you have monkeyed
he/she/it has monkeyed
we have monkeyed
you have monkeyed
they have monkeyed

Past Continuous
I was monkeying
you were monkeying
he/she/it was monkeying
we were monkeying
you were monkeying
they were monkeying

Past Perfect
I had monkeyed
you had monkeyed
he/she/it had monkeyed
we had monkeyed
you had monkeyed
they had monkeyed

Future
I will monkey
you will monkey
he/she/it will monkey
we will monkey
you will monkey
they will monkey

Future Perfect
I will have monkeyed
you will have monkeyed
he/she/it will have monkeyed
we will have monkeyed
you will have monkeyed
they will have monkeyed

Future Continuous
I will be monkeying
you will be monkeying
he/she/it will be monkeying
we will be monkeying
you will be monkeying
they will be monkeying

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been monkeying
you have been monkeying
he/she/it has been monkeying
we have been monkeying
you have been monkeying
they have been monkeying

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been monkeying
you will have been monkeying
he/she/it will have been monkeying
we will have been monkeying
you will have been monkeying
they will have been monkeying

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been monkeying
you had been monkeying
he/she/it had been monkeying
we had been monkeying
you had been monkeying
they had been monkeying

Conditional
I would monkey
you would monkey
he/she/it would monkey
we would monkey
you would monkey
they would monkey

Past Conditional
I would have monkeyed
you would have monkeyed
he/she/it would have monkeyed
we would have monkeyed
you would have monkeyed
they would have monkeyed

Monkey

A colloquial expression for a one-horse plowlike implement used to hook and pull up cane stalks by their roots. Also see Water monkey.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	monkey - any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)primate - any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feetcatarrhine, Old World monkey - of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close togetherNew World monkey, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian - hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails
	2.	monkey - one who is playfully mischievous scamp, imp, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywagchild, kid, minor, nipper, tiddler, youngster, tike, shaver, small fry, nestling, fry, tyke - a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster"brat, holy terror, little terror, terror - a very troublesome child
Verb	1.	monkey - play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly; "Someone tampered with the documents on my desk"; "The reporter fiddle with the facts"tamper, fiddlemanipulate - hold something in one's hands and move it
	2.	monkey - do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly; "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house"mess around, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, tinker, putterpuddle - mess around, as in a liquid or paste; "The children are having fun puddling in paint"work - exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; "I will work hard to improve my grades"; "she worked hard for better living conditions for the poor"

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noun1. simian, ape, primate, jackanapes (archaic) He walked on all fours like a monkey.2. rascal, horror, devil, rogue, imp, tyke, scallywag, mischief maker, scamp She's such a little monkey.Related words
adjective simian
collective noun troopQuotations
"monkey: an arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees" [Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary]

Monkeys, apes and other primates

aye-aye, baboon, Barbary ape, bonnet monkey, bushbaby or galago, capuchin, chacma, chimpanzee or chimp, colobus, douc, douroucouli, drill, flying lemur or colugo, gelada, gibbon, gorilla, green monkey, grivet, guenon, guereza, howler monkey, indris or indri, langur, lemur, loris, macaco, macaque, mandrill, mangabey, marmoset, mona, monkey or (archaic) jackanapes, orang-outang, orang-utan, or orang, proboscis monkey, rhesus monkey, saki, siamang, sifaka, spider monkey, squirrel monkey, talapoin, tamarin, tana, tarsier, titi, vervet, wanderoo

monkey

nounSlang. A person who is easily deceived or victimized:butt, dupe, fool, gull, lamb, pushover, victim.Informal: sucker.Slang: fall guy, gudgeon, mark, patsy, pigeon, sap.Chiefly British: mug.verb1. Informal. To handle something idly, ignorantly, or destructively:fiddle, fool, meddle, mess, tamper, tinker.2. To move one's fingers or hands in a nervous or aimless fashion:fiddle, fidget, fool, play, putter, tinker, toy, trifle, twiddle.

Translations

猴子瞎弄淘气的小孩

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(ˈmaŋki) noun1. an animal of the type most like man, especially those which are small and have long tails (ie not the apes). 猴子2. a mischievous child. Their son is a little monkey.淘气的小孩 verb (especially with with) to meddle or interfere. Who's been monkeying (about) with the television set?瞎弄monkey business mishievous or illegal happenings etc. 胡闹monkey nutpeanut

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any of a large and varied group of mammals of the primateprimate,
member of the mammalian order Primates, which includes humans, apes, monkeys, and prosimians, or lower primates. The group can be traced to the late Cretaceous period, where members were forest dwellers.
..... Click the link for more information. order. The term monkey includes all primates that do not belong to the categories human, ape, or prosimian; however, monkeys do have certain common features. All are excellent climbers, and most are primarily arboreal. Nearly all live in tropical or subtropical climates. Unlike most of the prosimians, or lower primates, they are almost all day-active animals. Their faces are usually flat and rather human in appearance, their eyes point forward, and they have stereoscopic color vision. Their hands and feet are highly developed for grasping; the big toes and, where present, the thumbs are opposable. Nearly all have flat nails. Monkeys habitually sit in an erect posture. Unlike the apes, most cannot swing arm-over-arm (the spider monkey is an exception) but move about in trees by running along the branches on all fours; their skeletal structure is similar to that of other four-footed animals. Monkeys live in troops of up to several hundred individuals and travel about in search of food, having no permanent shelter. As in apes and humans, the female has a monthly reproductive cycle, and mating may occur at any time, but in some species mating is seasonal. Usually only one infant is born at a time; it is cared for by the mother for a long period. There are two large groups, or superfamilies, of monkeys: Old World monkeys (Cercopithecoidea) and New World monkeys (Ceboidea).

Old World Monkeys

The Old World monkeys are found in S Asia, with a few species as far N as Japan and N China, and in all of Africa except the deserts. Most are arboreal, but a few, such as baboonsbaboon,
any of the large, powerful, ground-living monkeys of the genus Papio, also called dog-faced monkeys. Five subspecies live in Africa, with one species extending into the Arabian peninsula.
..... Click the link for more information. and some macaquemacaque
, name for Old World monkeys of the genus Macaca, related to mangabeys, mandrills, and baboons. All but one of the 19 species are found in Asia from Afghanistan to Japan, the Philippines, and Borneo.
..... Click the link for more information. species, are ground dwellers. Some Old World monkeys lack tails; when a tail is present it may be long or short but is never prehensile (grasping). The nostrils are close together and tend to point downward. Many species have cheek pouches for holding food, and many have thick pads (called ischial callosities), on the buttocks. Their gestation period is five to nine months. Adult Old World monkeys have 32 teeth. The Old World monkeys, sometimes called true monkeys, are more closely related to the apes and humans than they are to the New World monkeys; the two monkey groups probably evolved separately from ancestral primates.

The Old World monkeys include the many species of macaque, widely distributed throughout Africa and Asia. The rhesus monkey, commonly used in laboratory experiments, is an Asian macaque. Related to the macaques are the baboons of Africa and SW Asia, as well as the mandrillmandrill,
large monkey, Mandrillus sphinx, of central W Africa, related to the baboons. Mandrills are found in forests, while baboons live in open country. The fur of the mandrill is mostly dark brown, but the bare areas—face and buttocks—are patterned in
..... Click the link for more information. and mangabey of Africa. The guerezas, or colobus monkeys (genus Colobus), are very large, long-tailed, leaf-eating African monkeys. Their Asian relatives, the langurs and leaf monkeys, include the sacred monkeys of India. The snub-nosed monkey of China and the proboscis monkey of Borneo are langurlike monkeys with peculiar snouts. The guenons (Cercopithecus) are a large group of long-legged, long-tailed, omnivorous monkeys found throughout sub-Saharan Africa. One very widespread guenon species is the green monkey, or vervet, with olive-brown fur.

New World Monkeys

The New World monkeys are found from S Mexico to central South America, except in the high mountains, and are classified into two families (Callatrichids and Cebids). The Callatrichids are very small, while the Cebids are similar in size to the Old World monkeys. They are all thoroughly arboreal and most have long, prehensile tails with which they can manipulate objects and hang from branches. In most the thumb is lacking. They have widely separated nostrils that tend to point outward; they lack cheek pouches and ischial callosities. Their gestation period is four to five months. Adults of most New World species have 36 teeth.

The New World monkeys include the marmosetsmarmoset
, name for many of the small, squirrellike New World monkeys of the family Callithricidae. Members of this family are all found in tropical South America, with one species found also in Central America. They range in size from the pygmy marmoset, which is 8 in.
..... Click the link for more information. and tamarins, small monkeys with claws that are classified in a family of their own, the Callithricidae. The rest of the New World monkeys are classified in the family Cebidae. They include the capuchincapuchin
, name for New World monkeys of the genus Cebus, widely distributed in tropical forests of Central and South America. Medium-sized monkeys, they have a body length of 14 to 24 in. (36–61 cm), with a tail up to 20 in. (50 cm) long, and weigh 2 to 4 lb (0.
..... Click the link for more information. (genus Cebus), commonly seen in captivity, which has a partially prehensile tail. Prehensile tails are found in the spider monkey and woolly monkey as well as in the howler monkey, the largest member of the family, which has a voice that carries several miles. Smaller forms with nonprehensile tails are the squirrel monkey and titi, the nocturnal douroucouli, or owl monkey, the saki, and the ouakari.

Classification

Monkeys are classified in the phylum ChordataChordata
, phylum of animals having a notochord, or dorsal stiffening rod, as the chief internal skeletal support at some stage of their development. Most chordates are vertebrates (animals with backbones), but the phylum also includes some small marine invertebrate animals.
..... Click the link for more information. , subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Primates, superfamilies Cercopithecoidea and Ceboidea.

Monkey

(religion, spiritualism, and occult)

The monkey is one of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac. It refers to one of the 12 earthly branches that are used in Chinese astrology, together with the 10 heavenly stems. Such a branch designates one day every 12 days: the days are named according to a sexagesimal (60) cycle, made of 10 series of 12 branches.

The monkey is often a hilarious live wire even if he is sometimes subject to depression. Energetic (frenetic even), opportunistic, but unpredictable, crafty, inventive and clever, he is not adaptable to routine work. He loves to make an exhibition of himself, and finds losing or being contradicted hard to take.

—Michele Delemme

What does it mean when you dream about a monkey?

We typically think about monkeys as foolish, humorous and curious. Dream monkeys can represent any of these qualities. The also might be alluding to the meanings of such common idioms as to “monkey around,” “monkey business.” or to “make a monkey” out of someone.

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[′məŋ·kē] (mining engineering) An appliance for mechanically gripping or releasing the rope in rope haulage. An airway in an anthracite mine. (vertebrate zoology) Any of several species of frugivorous and carnivorous primates which compose the families Cercopithecidae and Cebidae in the suborder Anthropoidea; the face is typically flattened and hairless, all species are pentadactyl, and the mammary glands are always in the pectoral region.

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known to copy human actions. [Western Cult.: Misc.]See: Mimicry

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1. any of numerous long-tailed primates excluding the prosimians (lemurs, tarsiers, etc.): comprise the families Cercopithecidae (see Old World monkey), Cebidae (see New World monkey), and Callithricidae (marmosets) 2. any primate except man 3. the head of a pile-driver (monkey engine) or of some similar mechanical device 4. Nautical denoting a small light structure or piece of equipment contrived to suit an immediate purpose 5. Slang (esp in bookmaking) ?500 6. US and Canadian slang $500 7. Austral slang., archaic a sheep

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(dreams)The monkey is a symbol that needs to be understood by considering the various associations that we make when thinking about them. Monkeys may represent lust, selfsatisfaction, and trickery. A monkey may also represent positive attributes, such as agility, inspiration, a sense of freedom, and a capacity to imitate. In Japan, toys that look like monkeys are given to children because monkeys are supposed to be able to drive out evil spirits. In India, the monkey is a symbol of soul. Thus, monkeys as symbols appear to have a twin meaning. Whether positive or negative, the monkey is revealing something to you about what is going on in your inner world. People usually think that monkeys are far less evolved and the expression “stop monkeying around” is understood by all. The dream with a monkey may be an encouragement from you unconscious to continue to develop your personality by staying close to your own nature.

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noun simian

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noun rascal

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noun a person who is easily deceived or victimized

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verb to handle something idly, ignorantly, or destructively

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verb to move one's fingers or hands in a nervous or aimless fashion

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noun any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)

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noun one who is playfully mischievous

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verb play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly

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verb do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly

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