monkeyhoodn.
/ˈmʌŋkɪhʊd/, U.S. /ˈməŋkiˌ(h)ʊd/ rare.
The condition or state of being a monkey.
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monkeyhood1846
1846 G. Moore Power of Soul (1852) 9 The first man, was luckily evolved after passing through all the variety of monkeyhood, into a being fit to produce others like himself.
1873 L. Stephen Ess. Freethinking 266 The upright posture appeared at a certain period in the course of his development from monkeyhood.
1973 Nous 7 273 Surely, scientists may someday discover the remains of a creature on the borderline between humanity and monkeyhood.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1846- stay a weather of a wake
- stay apeak
- stay away, behind, down, in, on, out, up
- stay braid
- stay for
- stay friends with
- stay hand
- stay in
- stay in touch
- stay loose
- stay of
- stay of the sun
- stay on
- stay on serve
- stay on the right side of someone
- stay on, upon
- stay one's another's hand
- stay one's longing, hunger, the appetite
- stay one's own hand
- stay out
- stay over
- stay perdu
- stay put
- stay shet of
- stay shtum