Monkey

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails, and cheek pouches.

   “He had been visiting an area zoo when a monkey swung from its tree perch, swiped his glasses and hurled them into a hippo hole.”

2. isim Any simian, including humans.
3. isim Any simian primate other than hominids; any monkey or ape.

   “Chimpanzees are known to form bands to hunt and kill other monkeys.”

4. isim A naughty or mischievous person, especially a child.

   “Stop misbehaving, you cheeky little monkey!”

5. isim The person in the motorcycle sidecar in sidecar racing.
6. isim Synonym of idiot: a person of minimal intelligence.
7. isim Synonym of uggo: an unattractive person, especially one whose face supposedly resembles a monkey's.
8. isim Synonym of puppet: a person dancing to another's tune, a person controlled or directed by another.

   “No, no, no, not you. I want to talk to the organ grinder, not the monkey.”

9. isim A menial employee who does a repetitive job supposedly requiring minimal intelligence.

   “code monkey”

10. isim A black person.

    “Animalistic dehumanisation, 'simianisation' and the animalising of black bodies through metaphorically likening these individuals to 'baboons,' 'monkeys' or 'apes' reveals racialised animality discourse in South Africa.”

11. isim A penis.
12. isim A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
13. isim The vessel in which a mess receives its full allowance of grog.
14. isim The weight of a pile driver or drop hammer.

    “Someone handed me a monkey of grog. I forced myself to sip it, not down it.”

15. isim A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.
16. isim Synonym of five hundred, especially (UK) 500 pounds sterling or (US, dated) 500 dollars.

    “[I] gave her a monkey — just half my last thou — and started to earn some more.”

17. isim Synonym of face card.
18. isim A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.

    “I was out rather late one night, when the foreman of my department, who owed me a grudge, abused me like a dog, and told me I might consider myself dismissed, and that I should be paid my wages in the morning. I don't know how I kept my hands off him, for my monkey was up; […]”

19. isim A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.

    “Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey.”

20. isim A dance popularized by Major Lance in 1963, now usually only its upper-body dance move involving exaggerated drumming motions.

    “Do the Monkey, yeah, Do the Monkey, yeah, Ah, twist them hips, Let your backbone slip, Now move your feet, Get on the beat...”

21. fiil To meddle; to mess (with).

    “Please don't monkey with the controls if you don't know what you're doing.”

22. fiil To mimic; to ape.

    “He winked at Liza, who monkeyed him, holding her own eye shut.”

23. özel isim The ninth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.