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monkey-shine

monkey-shine is the alternative form of monkeyshine.

Meaning of monkeyshine

Noun

monkeyshine (plural monkeyshines)

  1. A puerile prank or trick.
    • I have seen about as many monkeyshines from you as I will tolerate.

Forms of monkey-shine

pluralmonkey-shines

Questions about monkey-shine

What is monkey-shine the alternative form of?
Monkey-shine is the alternative form of monkeyshine.

Words near monkey-shine in the dictionary

  1. monkey-paw
  2. monkey-paws
  3. monkey-pox
  4. monkey-puzzle
  5. monkey-puzzles
  6. monkey-shine
  7. monkey-shines
  8. monkey-speak
  9. monkey-strap
  10. monkey-straps
  11. monkey-wrench

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Adapted from Wiktionary: monkey-shine (page history and authors); monkeyshine (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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