monkey's weddingn.

Brit.

/ˌmʌŋkɪz ˈwɛdɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˌməŋkiz ˈwɛdɪŋ/, South African English

/ˌmʌŋkiz ˈwedɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; perhaps modelled on a Portuguese lexical item. Etymons: monkey n., wedding n.

Etymology: < the genitive of monkey n. + wedding n., perhaps ultimately after Portuguese casamento de rapôsa, lit. ‘vixen's wedding’, used in the same sense.The Portuguese phrase may have been adapted to *casamento de macaco ‘monkey's wedding’ in Portugal's southern African colonies. However, the phrase may have entered South African English via Zulu umshado we zinkawu , lit. ‘wedding for monkeys’. Evidence for such an expression in Afrikaans or Dutch is lacking (despite quot. 1963). See further Dict. S. Afr. Eng. on Historical Princ. (1996) at cited word. See Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. s.v. for earlier unrelated use of monkey's wedding (and also monkey's wedding breakfast) in the sense ‘state of disorder or disarray’.

South African colloquial.

Alternating or simultaneous sunshine and rain; an occurrence of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [noun] > kinds of weather > a spell of a kind of > alternately sunny and cloudy

monkey's wedding1949

1949 Cape Times 29 Nov. 16/3 The Peninsula had a ‘monkey's wedding’ rainfall yesterday with the sun shining at intervals and rain falling intermittently.

1961 Cape Times 8 Aug. 7 The weather was not exactly ‘monkey's wedding’ weather last week, sunshine alternating with a drizzle.

1963 S. Cloete Rags of Glory 336 A monkey's wedding day of love—that was how the Dutch described a day of alternate bright sunshine and showers.

1989 J. Hobbs Thoughts in Makeshift Mortuary 362 ‘Dumela,’ Sarah says, trying to smile at her though it is like a monkey's wedding, sunshine through rain.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	monkeys wedding
释义	monkey's weddingn. Brit. /ˌmʌŋkɪz ˈwɛdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌməŋkiz ˈwɛdɪŋ/, South African English /ˌmʌŋkiz ˈwedɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; perhaps modelled on a Portuguese lexical item. Etymons: monkey n., wedding n. Etymology: < the genitive of monkey n. + wedding n., perhaps ultimately after Portuguese casamento de rapôsa, lit. ‘vixen's wedding’, used in the same sense.The Portuguese phrase may have been adapted to casamento de macaco ‘monkey's wedding’ in Portugal's southern African colonies. However, the phrase may have entered South African English via Zulu umshado we zinkawu* , lit. ‘wedding for monkeys’. Evidence for such an expression in Afrikaans or Dutch is lacking (despite quot. 1963). See further Dict. S. Afr. Eng. on Historical Princ. (1996) at cited word. See Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. s.v. for earlier unrelated use of monkey's wedding (and also monkey's wedding breakfast) in the sense ‘state of disorder or disarray’. South African colloquial. Alternating or simultaneous sunshine and rain; an occurrence of this. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [noun] > kinds of weather > a spell of a kind of > alternately sunny and cloudy monkey's wedding1949 1949 Cape Times 29 Nov. 16/3 The Peninsula had a ‘monkey's wedding’ rainfall yesterday with the sun shining at intervals and rain falling intermittently. 1961 Cape Times 8 Aug. 7 The weather was not exactly ‘monkey's wedding’ weather last week, sunshine alternating with a drizzle. 1963 S. Cloete Rags of Glory 336 A monkey's wedding day of love—that was how the Dutch described a day of alternate bright sunshine and showers. 1989 J. Hobbs Thoughts in Makeshift Mortuary 362 ‘Dumela,’ Sarah says, trying to smile at her though it is like a monkey's wedding, sunshine through rain. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1949
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