Monkey

Noun

 * 1) Any of several members of the infra-order Simiiformes of primates, generally smaller than the apes, and distinguished from them by having a tail and cheek pouches.
 * 2)  A mischievous child.
 * Stop misbehaving, you little monkey!
 * 1)  Five-hundred pounds sterling.
 * 2)  A person or the role of the person on the sidecar platform of a motorcycle involved in sidecar racing.
 * 3)  A person with minimal inteligence and/or (bad) looks.
 * 4)  A dark-skinned person, especially a person of, or primarily of, Negro descent. See also nigger and/or jigaboo.
 * 5)  A face card.
 * 6)  A menial employee who does a repetitive job.

Derived terms

 * phone monkey, computer monkey

Verb

 * 1)  To meddle; to mess with; to interfere; to fiddle.
 * ''Please don't monkey with the controls if you don't know what you're doing.

Derived terms

 * code monkey
 * grease monkey
 * I'll be a monkey's uncle
 * make a monkey out of
 * monkey's uncle
 * monkey around
 * monkey bars
 * monkey boy


 * monkey business
 * monkey humping a football
 * monkey man
 * monkeynut
 * monkey trial
 * monkey up
 * monkey script
 * monkey see, monkey do


 * monkeyshines
 * New World monkey
 * Old World monkey
 * porch monkey
 * powder monkey
 * spank the monkey

Thesaurus
Cape polecat, Chiroptera, Irish, Lagomorpha, Primates, Rodentia, ape, ass, babe, bad temper, bantam, bar, bawbee, bear, boob, butt, byword, byword of reproach, cavy, chimp, chimpanzee, chump, cinch, conformist, coon, copier, copy, copycat, copyist, coquet, counterfeiter, credulous person, crown, cuckoo, cull, dabble, dally, dander, derision, devil, dissembler, dissimulator, dollar, dupe, duplicate, easy mark, easy pickings, echo, echoer, echoist, fair game, faker, fall guy, farthing, ferret, fiddle, fiddle with, fiddle-faddle, fidget with, figure of fun, finger with, fish, fiver, flirt, florin, fool, fool around, fool with, forger, foumart, fourpence, fourpenny, fribble, frivol, game, gamin, gazingstock, glutton, goat, gobe-mouches, greener, greenhorn, greeny, groat, groundhog, gudgeon, guinea, guinea pig, gull, half crown, half dollar, halfpenny, hedgehog, horse around, hypocrite, idle, imitate, imitator, imp, impersonate, impersonator, impostor, innocent, interfere with, jerk off, jest, jestingstock, joke, kid around, laughingstock, leadpipe cinch, little, loiter, mag, mark, meddle with, meg, mess around, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, mischief-maker, mite, mocker, mockery, mockingbird, monk, monkey around, mousehound, new pence, np, opossum, p, parrot, patsy, pence, penny, petite, phony, piddle, pigeon, plagiarist, play, play around, play with, plaything, polecat, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, pony, porcupine, poseur, possum, potter, pound, prairie dog, primate, prize sap, pushover, putter, quid, quill pig, raccoon, rapscallion, rascal, sap, saphead, scamp, schlemiel, sheep, shilling, simian, simulator, sitting duck, sixpence, skunk, smallish, smatter, stock, stooge, sucker, tamper with, target, temper, tenner, threepence, threepenny bit, thrippence, tinker, toy, toy with, trifle, trusting soul, tuppence, twiddle, twopence, victim, weasel, whistle-pig, wolverine, woodchuck, zoril

Etymology
Moneke: (compare Monequin:), name of the son of Martin the Ape in Reynard the Fox, from Old  mona: 'mona monkey', shortening of mamona, variant of maimón, from  ميمون: (maimūn) 'monkey', literally 'blessed', used to ward off the monkey's bad luck.

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic: (qerd)
 * Egyptian: (’ird)
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque: tximino
 * Bengali:
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:, маймун
 * Burmese: မျောက်
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chechen:
 * Cherokee:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 猴子 (hóuzi)
 * Min Nan:, , ,
 * Chuvash:
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: opičák, opice
 * Danish:, abekat
 * Dutch: ,
 * Egyptian: qephi (derived from kapi)
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: pärdik, ahv
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: (includes apes)
 * French: ,
 * Gagauz:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: קוף (koff)
 * Hindi: बन्दर (bandar), वानर (vānar) , कपि (kapi)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: simia
 * Irish: moncaí, mwnci
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 猿 (さる, サル, saru)
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khakas:
 * Khmer: (swaa)
 * Korean: 원숭이 (wonsung-i)
 * Kumyk:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: (liing)


 * Latin:, simius, simius, simius, simia
 * Latvian: mērkaķis
 * Lithuanian: beždžionė
 * Luganda: nkima
 * Luhya:
 * Luo:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malagasy: gidro
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: കുരങ്ങന് (kurangan)
 * Maltese: xadin, xadina, kitmejmun, gitmejmun
 * Marathi: माकड (mākad), वानर (vānar)
 * Mongolian: сармагчин (sarmagčin)
 * Navajo: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Old Norse: api
 * O'odham: chahngo
 * Occitan:, monard
 * Pashto:
 * Persian: بوزینه, ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: वानरः (vānarah)
 * Sardinian: moninca
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: majmun
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,  , simio
 * Swahili: (nc 9/10)
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: குறங்கு (kuRangu)
 * Tatar: maymıl
 * Telugu: (kOti), వానరము (vAnaramu)
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Tuvan:
 * Urdu: (bandar),  (vānar),  (kapi)
 * Uyghur: مايمۇن
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: con khỉ
 * Welsh: mwnci
 * Wolof: golo
 * Yakut:
 * Zulgo-Gemzek: ŋgìlìŋ
 * Yakut:
 * Zulgo-Gemzek: ŋgìlìŋ


 * Dutch: apenjong, brutale aap
 * Finnish:


 * Macedonian:
 * Slovene: