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, monkey, 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, monkey, 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, monkey, muck about, monkey around, tamper, putter, potter around, mess around, putter around, potter, tinker

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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. Buckingham Palace:

   He's a little monkey. But it's fantastic having a little family. I'm so thrilled. Catherine has been doing an amazing job as a mother and I'm very proud of her.

2. Jane Goodall:

   I think it's going to be a very lucky year for all of us who care about monkeys, apes, primates and animals in general but particularly the primates, and I hope that it will be a year where we can really draw attention to the wonderful monkeys and apes of China and the rest of Asia because they badly need our help, we really need to step up conservation. And what better time to do it than the Year of the Monkey.

3. Buckaroo Banzai (the film):

   Attention, attention, there are monkey-boys in the complex.

4. Gauri Maulekhi:

   It is not a 'monkey menace' but a human menace invading wildlife by cutting forests at large scale and allowing industries, human encroachments in forests are pushing out wild animals like monkeys from their settlements in search of food and shelter.

5. Lakshheish M Patel:

   Probability of GMDC share is NEGLIGIBLE. but falling down is IMMENSE. Investors who purchased it @ Rs.218 in April has got struck now and slowly inch by inch it is dropping down and last month it had touched up to Rs.123. This scrip reminds a very famous Villagers & MONKEY Purchase story prevalent about STOCK MARKET working methodology