Synonyms for monkey
ˈmʌŋ kimon·key

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1. monkeynoun

   any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)

   Synonyms:
   imp, rascal, rapscallion, scamp, scalawag, scallywag

2. imp, scamp, monkey, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywagverb

   one who is playfully mischievous

   Synonyms:
   hob, varlet, imp, scamp, pixy, rogue, elf, rapscallion, knave, brownie, rascal, pixie, gremlin, scallywag, scalawag

3. tamper, fiddle, monkeyverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   shrink from, shirk, muck about, goldbrick, potter, play, monkey around, tinker, muck around, putter, toy, tamper, meddle, mess around, fiddle, diddle

4. putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck aroundverb

   do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly

   "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house"

   Synonyms:
   fiddle, muck around, muck about, monkey around, tamper, putter, potter around, mess around, putter around, potter, tinker

Matched Categories

1. • Primate
   • Work

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1. hanuman

   at the top branches of the tree, sits the macaques stirring back at me.

   on a marvellous visit to the rishikesh zoo in india, i fed the hanuman monkeys with ripe bananas.

   Submitted by greenwriter60 on March 24, 2019  

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1. monkeynoun

   Synonyms:
   APE

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1. List of paraphrases for "monkey":

   ape, chimp, mono, monkeys, chimpanzee, apes, nigga, baboon, silvana, whip, primate

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1. Mario Balotelli:

   I am not saying that I am different to the other players who receive the same abuse, the same monkey noises, but the problem is that I am Italian.

2. Valerie Jarrett:

   I'm a lot of things, a loud mouth and all that stuff, but I'm not stupid for God's sake. I never would have wittingly called any black person, [ I would never had said ] they are a monkey.

3. Matt Gaetz:

   I'm proud that a Florida sanctuary stepped up to give these monkeys a home, there's still much more work to be done to stop the government's monkey business in labs at the FDA and other agencies.

4. Aleister Crowley:

   It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair.

5. Detective Rick Lowe:

   It’s my first time ever recovering a monkey from a prostitute.