Read full poem →Sooner let earth, air, sea to chaos fall,
Men, monkeys, lapdogs, parrots, perish all!'
Dictionary Entry
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.
In a Sentence
“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.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “monkeys”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →"Yes, and although I couldn't say for sure, I believe it is made by a
colony of monkeys, traveling through the woods at night," the other
replied, after stopping to listen for a minute to the odd sounds.
Read full poem →I beg your pardon, reader, for the oath
The monkeys make me swear, though something loth;
I'm apt to be discursive in my style,
Read full poem →You were light and a mocker! You should have been solemn,
And argued with monkeys and swine, speaking truthfully always.
Nay, truthful with whom, to what end? With a breed such as lived
Read full poem →And you have been gone five months.
The monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead.
You dragged your feet when you went out.
Read full poem →Decoy the wight that late an' drunk is,
The bleezin, curst, mischievous monkeys
Delude his eyes,
Read full poem →palace was there, how charming its grey and pink--
goats and monkeys, with such hair too!--so the
countess passed on until she came through the