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Definition of Brass monkey
1. Noun. A metal stand that formerly held cannon balls on sailing ships.
Definition of Brass monkey
1. Proper noun. A brand of inexpensive liquor. ¹
2. Noun. A cocktail of vodka, rum and orange juice, sometimes with the addition of Galliano. ¹
3. Adjective. (idiomatic of the weather) Very cold. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Literary usage of Brass monkey
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adventure Guide to the Florida Keys and Everglades National Park by Bruce Morris (2004)
"More or less a neighborhood bar, the brass monkey is best known as a late-night
haunt where everyone goes after the Hurricane Lounge (see below) closes. ..."
2. Radnor Reminiscences: A Foxhunting Journal by J. Stanley Reeve (1921)
"As the brass monkey is now pass/ and Dave Sharp quite the contrary, I '11 try to
tell the story before we go further with the doings of to-day. ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Drama: A Guide to the Plays, Play-wrights, Players, and by William Davenport Adams (1904)
"(4) Jim Brass is a character in CLEMENT SCOTT'S ' Off the Line ' (qv).
brass monkey (A). A play by C. II. HOYT (qv), produced in USA in ..."
4. A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901 by Thomas Allston Brown (1903)
"... ii, 17 Boz, i, 373 563, 615 Bos in America, i, 385 Brace of Partridges, A,
ii, 444, 445; iii, 564 Brass, in, 193 Burlesque, iii, 336 brass monkey, A, ..."
5. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1921)
"A brass monkey. Bijou Theatre, 15 Oct., 1888 (Otis Harlan, Tim Murphy). A Midnight
Bell. Bijou Theatre, 5 Mar., 1889. A Trip to Chinatown. ..."
6. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de ( Cervantes Saavedra, Henry Edward Watts (1888)
"... into a brass monkey, and him, into a 1 Tuera (colocynth), the fruit of cucumis
colocynthis: adelfa is the nerium oleander, whose leaves are poisonous. ..."
7. The Writings of Bret Harte by Bret Harte (1896)
"It was cold enough to freeze the ears off a brass monkey,' — a remark, no doubt,
sir, intended to convey a reason for his hiding his own. ..."
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