saki

[ sak-ee, sah-kee ]

/ ˈsæk i, ˈsɑ ki /

noun

any of several monkeys of the genus Pithecia, of tropical South America, having a golden-brown to black, thick, shaggy coat and a long, bushy, nonprehensile tail.

Nearby words

saker, sakha republic, sakhalin, sakharov, sakharov, andrei, saki, sakishima, sakkara, sakkoi, sakkos, sakmann

Origin of saki

1765–75; < French < Tupi sagui

Definition for saki (2 of 5)

saki

[ sah-kee ]

/ ˈsɑ ki /

noun

sake².

Definition for saki (3 of 5)

Saki

[ sah-kee ]

/ ˈsɑ ki /

noun

pen name of H(ector) H(ugh) Munro.

Definition for saki (4 of 5)

sake

or sa·ké, sa·ki

[ sah-kee ]

/ ˈsɑ ki /

noun

a Japanese fermented, mildly alcoholic beverage made from rice.

Origin of sake

1680–90; < Japanese sake(y), earlier *sakai

Definition for saki (5 of 5)

Munro

[ muh n-roh ]

/ mənˈroʊ /

noun

Alice (Laid·law)

[leyd-law] /ˈleɪdˌlɔ/, born 1931, Canadian short-story writer.

H(ector) H(ugh)Saki, 1870–1916, Scottish novelist and short-story writer, born in Burma.

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Examples from the Web for saki

The sailor tried to separate Loo's locked teeth, and poured a quantity of saki down his throat.
The Usurper|Judith Gautier
Saki is a kind of spirit, distilled from rice, always drunk hot out of small cups.
Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century|W. H. Davenport Adams
The branches of the kinnikinic brush were red and smooth as lacquer on a saki bowl.
Main Street|Sinclair Lewis
If you took some very thin hock, and tried to mull it and forgot all about the brew till it was half cold, you would get saki.
From Sea to Sea|Rudyard Kipling

During the play we saw attendants running about with tea, saki, tobacco pipes, and small braziers.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II|A.E. Nordenskieold

British Dictionary definitions for saki (1 of 6)

saki

/ (ˈsɑːkɪ) /

noun

any of several small mostly arboreal New World monkeys of the genera Pithecia and Chiropotes, having long hair and a long bushy tail

another name for sake 2

Word Origin for saki

sense 1: C20: French, from Tupi saqi

British Dictionary definitions for saki (2 of 6)

Saki

/ (ˈsɑːkɪ) /

noun

pen name of (Hector Hugh) Munro

British Dictionary definitions for saki (3 of 6)

Munro

/ (mʌnˈrəʊ) /

noun plural Munros

mountaineering any separate mountain peak over 3000 feet high: originally used of Scotland only but now sometimes extended to other parts of the British Isles

Word Origin for Munro

C20: named after Hugh Thomas Munro (1856–1919), who published a list of these in 1891

British Dictionary definitions for saki (4 of 6)

Munro

/ (mʌnˈrəʊ) /

noun

Alice, original name Alice Laidlaw. born 1931, Canadian short-story writer; her books include Lives of Girls and Women (1971), The Moons of Jupiter (1982), and The Love of a Good Woman (1999); winner of the Booker international prize (2009) for a lifetime body of work

H (ector) H (ugh), pen name Saki. 1870–1916, Scottish author, born in Burma (now Myanmar), noted for his collections of satirical short stories, such as Reginald (1904) and Beasts and Superbeasts (1914)

British Dictionary definitions for saki (5 of 6)

sake

/ (seɪk) /

noun

benefit or interest (esp in the phrase for (someone's or one's own) sake)

the purpose of obtaining or achieving (esp in the phrase for the sake of (something))

used in various exclamations of impatience, urgency, etcfor heaven's sake; for pete's sake

Word Origin for sake

C13 (in the phrase for the sake of, probably from legal usage): from Old English sacu lawsuit (hence, a cause); related to Old Norse sok, German Sache matter

British Dictionary definitions for saki (6 of 6)

sake

sak or saki

/ (ˈsækɪ) /

noun

a Japanese alcoholic drink made from fermented rice

Word Origin for sake

C17: from Japanese

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Word Origin and History for saki (1 of 3)

saki

see sake (n.2).

Word Origin and History for saki (1 of 3)

sake

n.1

"purpose," Old English sacu "a cause at law, crime, dispute, guilt," from Proto-Germanic *sako "affair, thing, charge, accusation" (cf. Old Norse sök "charge, lawsuit, effect, cause," Old Frisian seke "strife, dispute, matter, thing," Dutch zaak "lawsuit, cause, sake, thing," German sache "thing, matter, affair, cause"), from PIE root *sag- "to investigate, seek out" (cf. Old English secan, Gothic sokjan "to seek;" see seek).

Much of the word's original meaning has been taken over by case (n.1), cause (n.), and it survives largely in phrases for the sake of (early 13c.) and for _______'s sake (c.1300, originally for God's sake), both probably are from Norse, as these forms have not been found in Old English.

Word Origin and History for saki (2 of 3)

sake

n.2

"Japanese rice liquor," 1680s, from Japanese sake, literally "alcohol."

Idioms and Phrases with saki

sake

see for the sake of.