monkey
noun
any of more than 250 species of simian primates belonging to the two distinct lines of New World monkeys and Old World monkeys.
monkeyish
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a word derived from
monkey.
Example Sentences
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It makes us smile to see birds, like the magpie, with a mania for this collecting--but only monkeyish beings could reverence museums as we do, and pile such heterogeneous trifles and quantities in them.
From This Simian World by Clarence Day
He laughs at the lad as heartily as I do, invites him to our table, and is amused by his monkeyish tricks.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
—Good evening, gentlemen, said the stubble-grown monkeyish face.
From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The spider is less cruel; the very pig less greedy, gluttonous and foul; the tiger less tigerish; our cousin ape less monkeyish.
From Paul Kelver, a Novel by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
And still his features wore that monkeyish look of unrest, of discontent and quizzical irony oddly mingled.
From Charles Rex by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
