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Monkey vs Raccoon - What's the difference?

monkey | raccoon |

As nouns the difference between monkey and raccoon

is that 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 while raccoon is a nocturnal omnivore native to north america, typically with a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur, a mask-like marking around the eyes and a striped tail; procyon lotor .

As a verb monkey

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

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

    raccoon

    Alternative forms

    * racoon * rarowcun * r'coon (colloquial contraction)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A nocturnal omnivore native to North America, typically with a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur, a mask-like marking around the eyes and a striped tail; Procyon lotor .
  • * 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 64:
  • Before a fire upon a seat like a bedsted, he sat covered with a great robe, made of Rarowcun skinnes, and all the tayles hanging by.
  • * 2010 , Charlie Brooker, "Screen Burn", The Guardian , 3 Apr 2010:
  • Thus we're presented witha man who has the head of his penis bitten off by a raccoon , then bleeds to death in a forest.
  • Any mammal of the genus Procyon .
  • Any mammal of the subfamily Procyoninae, a procyonine.
  • Any mammal of the family Procyonidae, a procyonid.
  • Synonyms

    * (Procyon lotor) coon (colloquial), (common raccoon), (North American raccoon), northern raccoon

    Derived terms

    * coon * coon dog * coonhound * (Cozumel raccoon) * crab-eating raccoon * in a raccoon's age / in a coon's age * (pygmy raccoon) * (raccoon butterfly) * (raccoon butterflyfish), * raccoon dog * raccoon eyes