noun / verb
monkey
MUNG-kee/ˈmʌŋki/
A primate distinct from an ape, typically with a long tail.
The long-tailed monkey balances on a branch, gripping it with its feet.
Etymology
Its origin is uncertain, but it likely comes from a continental diminutive for “monkey.” In English it has covered apes and baboons as well as the long-tailed primates now popularly associated with the name.
In context
he also has brown fur and a long tail like a squirrel but he's a pygmy marmoset the smallest monkey in the world marmosets and their cousins tamarins are some of the smallest primates in existence
More examples
- Several monkeys groom each other in the shade.
- Please don't monkey with the settings on my phone.
- You little monkey, where did you hide my keys?
Forms
monkey · monkeys · monkeyed · monkeying