monkey man

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A man who owns a monkey or monkeys; an organ grinder who keeps a pet monkey as part of his attraction. obsolete
    — Everybody seemed happy. The goose and marble man, the monte player, purse trickster, monkey man, ginger-pop man, ice cream vendor, and the young man who gave away pound notes for sixteen shillings, and after wearables and so called jewellery at a grand profit to himself, all were happy and contented looking.
  2. A supposed missing link, having intermediate characteristics of human and non-human primates; any extinct hominin.
    — We seem no nearer, however, to the discovery of that more important link between the quadrumana and the bimana - the monkey-man, or man-monkey, gifted with a rudimentary hippocampus minor, or toe-bone, and rejoicing in the possession of articulate speech.
  3. A man with simian characteristics. derogatory
    — Cr Greenhill interjected that Cr M'Gregor was a "monkey man," whereupon the latter called the attention of the Mayor to his comments[.]
  4. A folklore creature that is part monkey, part human.
    — Monkey, a Japanese-made series, features a youthful Buddhist priest, a monkey-man, a smallish gentleman who fell into the belly of a pig, an artistic type who lived under water, and a dragon-turned-horse.
  5. A cryptid that is part monkey, part human.
    — April 5, 2001, the Monkey Man attacks Anil Gopal.

词形变化

monkey men plural
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