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Definition of Monkeying
1. monkey [v] - See also: monkey
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monkeying
Literary usage of Monkeying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Circuits of Victory by Abraham Lincoln Lavine (1921)
""There go those damn nuisances monkeying with the periscope again," ... "We damn
nuisances are going to quit monkeying with the periscope to-morrow. ..."
2. Ordered to China: Letters of Wilbur J. Chamberlin Written from China While by Wilbur J Chamberlin (1903)
"monkeying with letters is an old Chinese trick, and if any of the letters I have
written ... I have been monkeying around most of the day to-day with the ..."
3. Ordered to China: Letters Written from China While Under Commission from the by Wilbur J. Chamberlin, Georgia Louise Chamberlin (1904)
"monkeying with letters is an old Chinese trick, and if any of the letters I have
written ... I have been monkeying around most of the day to-day with the ..."
4. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1886 There must be no monkeying with the issue.—Chicago Advance, Sept. 9. (NED)
1888 Preventing inquisitive visitors from monkeying with the machinery. ..."
5. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1918)
"Oh yes, numbers of Swedes and Italians were in a desperate way monkeying with
powder. It's a fetching business. In a week, look here, Scarecrow Charlie left ..."
6. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"All cursed the doer for an evil Called here enlarging on the Devil, There monkeying
the Lord. Un. Browning, Tale of Villafranca, at 8. monkey-apple ..."
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