monked

Verb

monk (third-person singular simple present monks, present participle monking, simple past and past participle monked)

1. To be a monk.
   • "Ah!" she cried, "thou art the prettiest little monk that ever monked it in this blessed, amorous town of Constance!"1990, Honoré de Balzac, James Lewis May, Jean de Boschère, Ten droll tales, page 25
2. To act like a monk; especially to be contemplative.
   • Many a scholar, making wings of candlewicks to flap away old darkness, monked his life to fasting long while feasting upon new light.1961, Snowy Egret - Volumes 25-30, page 74
3. To monkey or meddle; to behave in a manner that is not systematic.
   • The Avatar spoke gently as she responded to his jibe. "Now fucking get aboard and stop monking on like a schoolboy, you silly earplug.2015, Tooty Nolan, Earplug Adventures: An Exaltation of Earplugs, →ISBN
4. To be intoxicated or confused.
   • I looked up from the thick cotton mat, unsure where my legs were. “She looks monked up.” “maybe her brain is damaged, huh, miss Bryant?”2011, Devon W. Carbado, Dwight A. McBride, Donald Weise, Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction, →ISBN
5. (transitive) To attach so that it sticks out.
   • Molten roofing north, lead dripping down south, stand like those immobilized columns of arctic water west, stalagmites, monked and housed or stamped and dudleyed east, in school texts.1981, Kalu Uka, A Consummation of Fire: A Novel, page 9

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