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Monkey vs Ake - What's the difference?

monkey | ake |

As a noun monkey

is any member of the clade simiiformes not also of the clade hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouches.

As a verb monkey

is (label) to meddle; to mess with; to interfere; to fiddle.

As a proper noun ake is

a nigerian language.

monkey

English

(wikipedia monkey)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouches.
  • (label) A mischievous child.
  • Five hundred pounds sterling.
  • (label) A person or the role of the person on the sidecar platform of a motorcycle involved in sidecar racing.
  • (label) A person with minimal intelligence and/or (bad) looks.
  • (label) A face card.
  • (label) A menial employee who does a repetitive job.
  • The weight or hammer of a pile driver; a heavy mass of iron, which, being raised high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging.
  • A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.

    • Derived terms

    * (menial employee) phone monkey, code monkey * brass monkey * capuchin monkey * grease monkey * green monkey * green monkey disease * monkey barge * monkey bars * monkey bike * monkey boot * monkey bread * monkey business * monkey dance * monkey drill * monkey-faced owl * monkey flip * monkey humping a football * monkey in the middle * monkey jacket * monkey motion * monkey nut * monkey orchid * monkey pole * monkey rum * monkey show * monkey spoon * monkey squirrel * monkey stove * Monkey Ward's * monkey orange * monkey pistol * monkey thorn * monkey wrench * not give a monkey's

    Verb

  • (label) To meddle; to mess with; to interfere; to fiddle.
    • ''Please don't monkey with the controls if you don't know what you're doing.
  • * 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter XII
    • “As an inventor,” Bob Mason suggested, “you're a howling success at shooting craps! Why monkey with weak imitations when you can come close to the original?”

    Derived terms

    {{der3, code monkey , grease monkey , I'll be a monkey's uncle , make a monkey out of , monkey's uncle , monkey around , monkey bars , monkey boy , monkey business , monkey humping a football , monkey man , monkey meat , monkeynut , monkey trial , monkey up , monkey script , , monkeyshines , monkey wrench , New World monkey , Old World monkey , porch monkey , powder monkey , snow monkey , spank the monkey}}

    See also

    * ape * primate 1000 English basic words

    ake

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • * ... for let our finger ake , / And it endues our other heathfull members — Othello (Quarto 1), Shakespeare, 1622
  • * {{quote-book, year=1909
    • , year_published=2004 , edition=text , editor= , author=Henry C. Shelley , title=Inns and Taverns of Old London , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=instead he went with the rogues to supper in an arbour, though it made his heart "ake " to listen to their mad talk. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2015 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=LT Wolf , title=The World King , chapter= , url= , genre=fiction , publisher= , isbn=978-1-312-37454-6 , page= , passage=The ake of months of a growing firenlust became a rising queem til at last there was the burst of loosing that almost made his knees buckle. }}

    Etymology 2

    (etyl).

    Adverb

    (-)
  • forever

    • Anagrams

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