| 单词 | monkey fashion |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmonkey fashion monkey fashion n. and adv. ΚΠ 1600 T. Dekker Old Fortunatus sig. F3 This apish monkie fashion of effeminate nicenesse, out vpon it. 1793 South Downs 52 There monkey fashion struts in various shapes. 1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge xxiii. 414 An animal of some kind or another stuck up, monkey-fashion, in the bow, which..I perceived to be a most noble Spanish bloodhound. 1868 A. J. Munby Diary 7 Sept. in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 245 She sprang or climbed, monkeyfashion. 1895 R. Kipling Second Jungle Bk. 218 When he tired of ground-going he threw up his hands monkey-fashion to the creeper. 1917 E. T. Seton Wild Animal Ways vii. 240 When he left she called him back in monkey fashion, a whining ‘errr, errr’. 1930 Amer. Lit. 2 76 In the Mexican stories the rabbit not only climbs trees but also tricks another animal, the coyote, in true monkey fashion by throwing..zapotes. 1983 H. L. Little Rima, Monkey's Child vi. 36 Hardly one-quarter of the great troupe had survived—the same troupe that had welcomed us, monkey-fashion, to..‘Santa Maria’. 1997 Orlando Sentinel (Nexis) 2 Nov. 4 They express sadness, joy and anger, and they even make jokes and tell little white lies in monkey fashion. 2002 J. M. Davis Circus Age 130 The full pouched cheeks, into which she appears to have the habit of stuffing her food, monkey-fashion. < as lemmas |
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