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monkeyshine

Syllables: mon·key·shine/ˈmʌnkiˌʃaɪn/

monkeyshine noun: a puerile prank or trick.

Noun

monkeyshine (plural monkeyshines)

  1. A puerile prank or trick.
    • I have seen about as many monkeyshines from you as I will tolerate.
    • You may have noticed barefooted boys cutting up monkey-shines on trees with entire safety to themselves.1878, Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Popular Science Monthly, XIII. 435

Synonyms of monkeyshine

All synonyms of monkeyshine

Forms of monkeyshine

pluralmonkeyshines
alternative formmonkey-shine

Origin of monkeyshine

From monkey + shine.

Questions about monkeyshine

What does monkeyshine mean?
Monkeyshine means a puerile prank or trick.
What part of speech is monkeyshine?
Monkeyshine is a noun.
How do you pronounce monkeyshine?
Monkeyshine is pronounced /ˈmʌnkiˌʃaɪn/.
What is the plural of monkeyshine?
The plural of monkeyshine is monkeyshines.

Words near monkeyshine in the dictionary

  1. monkeys might fly out of my butt
  2. monkeys on a stick
  3. monkeys up
  4. monkeys' parade
  5. monkeys' weddings
  6. monkeyshine
  7. monkeyshines
  8. monkeysona
  9. monkeysonas
  10. monkeyspeak
  11. monkeywalk

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