monkeynoun [ C ]
usuk/ˈmʌŋ.ki/monkey noun [ C ] (ANIMAL)
A2 an animal that lives in hot countries, has a long tail, and climbs trees. Monkeys are primates (= the group of animals that are most like humans) .
Examples
- What's the difference between an ape and a monkey?
- In the first question you had to name three types of monkey.
- Using a bunch of bananas, the zoo-keeper persuaded the monkey back into its cage.
- Bored out of its mind, the monkey stares out of the cage with unseeing eyes.
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Humans, apes & monkeys
- anthropo-
- anthropoid
- ape
- baboon
- chimpanzee
- gorilla
- hominid
- homo
- Homo sapiens
- human
- incarnate
- lemur
- man
- mandrill
- mankind
- marmoset
- rhesus monkey
- simian
- spider monkey
- the human race
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monkey noun [ C ] (CHILD)
informal a child who behaves badly:
They ate all the cakes, the monkeys.
[ as form of address ] Hey, put that down, you little monkey!
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Children & babies
- a mouth to feed idiom
- arrival
- babe
- babe in arms
- baby
- childlike
- childproof
- children
- crawler
- designer baby
- oops-a-daisy
- pacifier
- papoose
- perisher
- pest
- tomboy
- tot
- tyke
- urchin
- waif
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monkey noun [ C ] (MONEY)
UK slang £500
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Informal words for money
- (your) (daily) bread idiom
- bit
- bread
- dosh
- dough
- fiver
- G, g
- gee
- grand
- lolly
- lucre
- monies
- pickings
- shekel
- spondulicks
- tanner
- tenner
- ton
- wonga
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Idiom(s)
I'll be a monkey's uncle!
make a monkey out of sb
not give a monkey's