“monkeyish”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

monkeyish

释义

monkeyish, a.|ˈmʌŋkɪɪʃ|
[f. monkey n. + -ish.]
Like a monkey; resembling a monkey in imitativeness or mischievousness.
1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 11 Some Apish and Munkeyish as well as Lion-like diuels.1830Arnold in Life & Corr. (1844) II. App. C. 388 But monkeyish imitation will do no good.1852Dickens Bleak Ho. xx, He drinks, and smokes, in a monkeyish way.1882‘F. Anstey’ Vice Versa iv, Their [sc. boys'] monkeyish mischief.
Hence ˈmonkeyishness.
1824Blackw. Mag. XV. 263 This is the great excellence of Talma in tragedy—that he has little or none of the monkeyishness of his country.1890Baring-Gould In Troub. Land iv, The Germans have a saying that the higher a monkey climbs the more he exposes his monkeyishness.

Add: ˈmonkeyishly adv.
1923A. Huxley Antic Hay 93 Let the nose twitch and the mouth grin and the eyes twinkle as monkeyishly as you like;..the forehead still knows how to be human.1984J. Updike Witches of Eastwick ii. 129 She grinned monkeyishly.

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