Monkey

Kannada Meaning

ಮ೦ಗ

English Meaning

  1. Any of various long-tailed, medium-sized members of the order Primates, including the macaques, baboons, guenons, capuchins, marmosets, and tamarins and excluding the anthropoid apes and the prosimians.
  2. One who behaves in a way suggestive of a monkey, as a mischievous child or a mimic.
  3. The iron block of a pile driver.
  4. Slang A person who is mocked, duped, or made to appear a fool: They made a monkey out of him.
  5. Slang Drug addiction: have a monkey on one's back.
  6. Informal To play, fiddle, trifle, or tamper with something.
  7. Informal To behave in a mischievous or apish manner: Stop monkeying around!
  8. To imitate or mimic; ape.