| 释义 |
monkeyish, a.|ˈmʌŋkɪɪʃ|
[f. monkey n. + -ish.]
Like a monkey; resembling a monkey in imitativeness or mischievousness.
1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 11 Some Apish and Munkeyish as well as Lion-like diuels. 1830Arnold in Life & Corr. (1844) II. App. C. 388 But monkeyish imitation will do no good. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. xx, He drinks, and smokes, in a monkeyish way. 1882‘F. Anstey’ Vice Versa iv, Their [sc. boys'] monkeyish mischief.
Hence ˈmonkeyishness.
1824Blackw. Mag. XV. 263 This is the great excellence of Talma in tragedy—that he has little or none of the monkeyishness of his country. 1890Baring-Gould In Troub. Land iv, The Germans have a saying that the higher a monkey climbs the more he exposes his monkeyishness.
Add: ˈmonkeyishly adv.
1923A. Huxley Antic Hay 93 Let the nose twitch and the mouth grin and the eyes twinkle as monkeyishly as you like;..the forehead still knows how to be human. 1984J. Updike Witches of Eastwick ii. 129 She grinned monkeyishly. |