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.
were monkeying
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past progressiveof monkey.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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They were monkeying with the sashes and panes all night long, and I imagined that I could hear them breathing—as though from effort of intense eagerness.
From In Search of the Unknown by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
So you were monkeying around my horse to-day, you fakir!
From Frank Merriwell's Races by Burt L. Standish
