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ˈmonkey-face
1. a. A face like a monkey's. Also attrib. Also, a person with a monkey-like or funny face.
1598Florio, Mona, an ape, a munkie, a pug, a kittin, a munkie face. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 333 One..made us good laughing, with his mows and monkey faces. 1681T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 33 (1713) I. 214 Harry will..have his little Monkey-face mounted to adorn the top of the Amsterdam-Coffee-house. 1765Foote Commissary i. Wks. 1799 II. 17 Doctor Catgut, the meagre musician; that sick monkey-face maker of crotchets. 1936C. Sandburg People, Yes lvi. 130 Where did ja cop dat monkeyface. Ibid. 131 Gwan monkeyface peddle yer papers. 1946E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh (1947) i. 17 Hello, leedle Rocky! Leedle monkey-face! I did not recognise you. Ibid., Laugh, leedle monkey-faces! Laugh like fools, leedle stupid peoples! 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. ix. 171 A funny-faced person may also be called..‘Monkey Face’.
b. A grimace. West Indies colloq.
1943L. Bennett Jamaican Humour in Dialect 3 For wen she laugh it like she Dah meck up monkey face. 1946E. N. Burke Stories told by Uncle Newton I. 31 The boys make monkey faces at me and I return the compliment with interest. 1952S. Selvon Brighter Sun iv. 58 ‘Pewee, come an' go to school!’ but Pewee made them a ‘monkey face’ and ran into the shop.
†2. The betel-nut. Obs.
1700Plukenet Opera Bot. (1769) III. 145 Palma Arecifera fructu compresso [etc.]. Hujus fructus Nucis..ex Angola allatus est, & à nostratibus Monkey-face, ibi dictus.
3. The monkey-faced owl. U.S. colloq. or dial.
1955Amer. Speech XXX. 180 The barn owl is very generally called monkey-faced owl, a designation often shortened to monkey face.
So ˈmonkey-faced a.: spec. U.S., monkey-faced owl, the barn-owl, Tyto alba.
1803Lett. Miss Riversdale II. 284, I shall be so much my own enemy, as to take up with any monkey-faced battered rake. 1850R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. (1902) 14/1 This is a common failing among this monkey-faced race. 1915J. Buchan Thirty-Nine Steps i. 12, I went home, dressed, dined at the Café Royal, and turned into a music-hall. It was a silly show, all capering women and monkey-faced men. 1917Dialect Notes IV. 426 Hibou paille, the American barn owl (Aluco pratincolo): also called monkey-faced owl. 1955[see monkey-face 3]. 1961O. L. Austin Birds of World 154/1 Barn owls differ from the typical owls in their heart-shaped facial disk, which is so simian in aspect that the birds are often called ‘monkey-faced owls’. |