[
UK
/mˈʌnki/
]
[ US /ˈməŋki/ ]
[ US /ˈməŋki/ ]
VERB
-
play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
Someone tampered with the documents on my desk
The reporter fiddle with the facts -
do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly
The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house
NOUN
- one who is playfully mischievous
- any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)
How To Use monkey In A Sentence
- I call him the little weasel, a little northern monkey. Times, Sunday Times
- And the vervet monkey, Larry, they're in troops of 50 to 100 to 200.
- This white-naped mangabey monkey was born at The Bioparco Zoo in Rome, Italy, and is part of an international breeding program to keep the species alive.
- Leopards are after all quite as at home in the treetops as they are and on occasion are partial to monkey.
- It shows a stag hunt, accompanied by more unlikely woodland animals such as a monkey and a tortoise. Times, Sunday Times
- It was the size of a monkey's fist and flew into the kitchen window with a thunk.
- The city emerged from trusteeship under a new mayor, but he too cooked the books and monkeyed with zoning for his own ends.
- It's almost too much to take in when some mischievous monkeys try to hitch a ride with us. The Sun
- So I hied myself downtown to a famous pet shop named Trefflich's, where there was an entire floor filled with chattering squirrel monkeys. Jay Weston: Do Monkeys Make Good Pets?
- The teacher suspected that there had been some monkey business going on in the class.
