| NOUN | animal | monkey | any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians) |
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| person | monkey, imp, scamp, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag | one who is playfully mischievous | |
| VERB | contact | monkey, tamper, fiddle | play around with or alter or falsify / falsify / falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly |
| contact | monkey, putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey around, muck about, muck around | do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly |
| Sounds | mah'ngkiy | |
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| Rhymes | achy ... yucky: 142 rhymes with kiy... | |
| Meaning | Any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians). | |
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| Narrower | New World monkey, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian | hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails |
| Old World monkey, catarrhine | Of Africa or Arabia or Asia | |
| Broader | primate | Any placental mammal of the order Primates |
| Spanish | mico, mono, simio | |
| Catalan | mico, simi | |
| Meaning | One who is playfully mischievous. | |
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| Synonyms | imp, scamp, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag | |
| Narrower | terror, brat, little terror, holy terror | A very troublesome child |
| Broader | child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling | A young person of either sex |
| Spanish | bicho, diablillo, mocoso, pícaro, pillo | |
| Catalan | diabló, entremaliat, mocós, pillet, trapella | |
| Verbs | monkey | play around with or alter or falsify / falsify / falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly |
| Meaning | play around with or alter or falsify / falsify / falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | tamper, fiddle | |
| Broader | manipulate | hold something in one's hands and move it |
| Spanish | manipular, trucar | |
| Nouns | monkey | one who is playfully mischievous |
| Meaning | Do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonyms | putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey around, muck about, muck around | |
| Narrower | puddle | mess around, as in a liquid / liquid or paste |
| Broader | work | Exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity |
| Spanish | entretenerse | |
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