English Dictionary

monkey

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈmʌŋki/

名詞

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Any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouches.

日本語の意味

猿 – 灰色、体が小さく、尾があり、頬嚢を持つなどの特徴で、人間や大型の類人猿（ヒト科）と区別される霊長類の一群。

A monkey darted through the trees, its tail flicking as it searched for fruit.

尾のあるサルが木々の間を駆け抜け、果実を探して尾を振っていた。

意味（1）

Any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouches.

He had been visiting an area zoo when a monkey swung from its tree perch, swiped his glasses and hurled them into a hippo hole.

意味（2）

(informal) Any nonhuman simian primate, including apes.

Chimpanzees are known to form bands to hunt and kill other monkeys.

意味（3）

(informal) A mischievous person, often a child.

Stop misbehaving, you little monkey!

意味（4）

A dance move popular in the 1960s.

意味（5）

(Britain, slang) Five hundred pounds sterling; (US, dated) five hundred dollars.

A thousandth of a million squid or two monkeys / Or a whole fifty scores

意味（6）

(slang) A person or the role of the person on the sidecar platform of a motorcycle involved in sidecar racing.

意味（7）

(slang) A person with minimal intelligence and/or an unattractive appearance

意味（8）

(blackjack) A face card.

意味（9）

(slang) A menial employee who does a repetitive job, as in code monkey, grease monkey, phone monkey, powder monkey.

意味（10）

The weight or hammer of a pile driver; a heavy mass of iron, which, being raised high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging.

意味（11）

(historical) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.

意味（12）

(slang) A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.

Monkey: a habit, as in I have a monkey on my back. Usually used when one is sick from lack of drugs.

意味（13）

A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.

意味（14）

(slang) A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.

I was out rather late one night, when the foreman of my department, who owed me a grudge, abused me like a dog, and told me I might consider myself dismissed, and that I should be paid my wages in the morning. I don't know how I kept my hands off him, for my monkey was up; […]

意味（15）

(slang, derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) A black person.

意味（16）

(slang, nautical) The vessel in which a mess receives its full allowance of grog.

Someone handed me a monkey of grog. I forced myself to sip it, not down it.

monkeys （ plural ）