monkeyess

monkeyess noun: a female monkey.

Noun

monkeyess (plural monkeyesses)

(archaic) A female monkey.
- Here’s monkey Wieland, the youth of Old Drury, / Whose acting alone filled the manager’s purse; / His ma wa’n’t a monkeyess, I can assure ye, / But he certainly must have had one for his nurse. / Dear creatures: we can’t do without one, &c.1828, “The Monkey; or, Dear Creatures, We Can’t Do Without Them”, in The Universal Songster; or, Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete, Extensive, and Valuable Collection of Ancient and Modern...
- The gown of the small shopkeeper’s wife may have been made by the dressmaker of the duchess, and the former may be the more ladylike woman of the two; but being without the substance that warrants the show, she is a monkeyess.1854 December, “Monkeyism”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, Edinburgh: Sutherland and Knox; […], page 749, column 1

Monkeys are the best mimickers, the more civilized and refined imitate them in extracting labial sweetness from the monkeyesses.1877 November 15, Amicus, “A Leatherwood Melange, Containing Little Sense and Much Nonsense, Wherein Ah Sin Portrays His Beauideal”, in The...
One of the rajahs of India spent 100,000 rupees in the marriage of two monkeys. […] It was twelve days before the monkey and monkeyess were free from their round of gay attentions.1894 January 3, “Rev. Dr. Talmage; The Brooklyn Divine’s Sunday Sermon. Subject: “The Burning of the Dead.””, in Marion Record, volume 4...
Three urchins were feeding a monkey and a monkeyess candy.1894 June 25, “Found the Lost Link. The Schenley Park Reporter Establishes Mr. Darwin’s Theory. Gusy Like a U. S. Senator. Two Female Human...
Evolution has selected the best things for preservation as the man and woman have climbed up from the monkey and the monkeyess.[…]”1911 April 3, “American Girls the Most Beautiful”, in The Hattiesburg News, volume XV, number 73, Hattiesburg, Miss., page three:

plural	monkeyesses

From monkey + -ess.

What does monkeyess mean?: Monkeyess means a female monkey.
How do you use monkeyess in a sentence?: Monkeys are the best mimickers, the more civilized and refined imitate them in extracting labial sweetness from the monkeyesses.
What part of speech is monkeyess?: Monkeyess is a noun.
What is the plural of monkeyess?: The plural of monkeyess is monkeyesses.

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