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Synonyms for monkey

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for monkey

a person who is easily deceived or victimized

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to handle something idly, ignorantly, or destructively

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to move one's fingers or hands in a nervous or aimless fashion

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Synonyms for monkey

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

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play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly

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do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly

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Among other animal allusions, Humbert employs tropes such as "my ape-ear" (48), "my web" (49), "ray-like, I glide" (50), "monkeyish feet" (51), "I bayed" (77), "monstrous mutation" (103), "I am nature's faithful hound" (135), "my ape paw" (258) and "my long agate claws" (274).
Early in his acquaintance with Dolores, Humbert tells the reader that the girl has "long-toed, monkeyish feet" (51) and "monkeyish nimbleness" (58).
Nobokov's "Chosen Creatures": the grotesque and incest in Lolita/ Nabokov'un "Secilmis Yaratiklari": Lolita'da grotesk ve ensest
I am slowly moving away from the fairgrounds of the world And I notice in myself a distaste For the monkeyish dress, the screams and the drumbeats.
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