Meaning of monkey man | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A man who owns a monkey or monkeys; an organ grinder who keeps a pet monkey as part of his attraction.
   obsolete
2. A supposed missing link, having intermediate characteristics of human and non-human primates; any extinct hominin.
3. A man with simian characteristics.
   derogatory
4. A folklore creature that is part monkey, part human.
5. A cryptid that is part monkey, part human.

Examples

“Everybody seemed happy. The goose and marble man, the monte player, purse trickster, monkey man, ginger-pop man, ice cream vendor, and the young man who gave away pound notes for sixteen shillings, and after wearables and so called jewellery at a grand profit to himself, all were happy and contented looking.”

“The racing clubs might decide among themselves, and let such be a rule under the South Australian Jockey Club rules, that no wheel of fortune man, "monkey man," jenny, or any such character should be allowed on any course, while such clubs have responsible officers to work the Totalizator machine.”

“Each organ grinder has a regular beat (this applies also to the hideous Italian monkey man) and he does it with painful regularity to the bitter annoyance and discomfort of storekeepers and pedestrians.”

“Then we have a monkey man, with three Simians in his charge - one a loag-tailed, grey-haired, whiskered lass; another a stumpy, almost hairless gentleman, much given to hand-shaking and hugging, and one of the uncouth ourang-outang type.”

“We seem no nearer, however, to the discovery of that more important link between the quadrumana and the bimana - the monkey-man, or man-monkey, gifted with a rudimentary hippocampus minor, or toe-bone, and rejoicing in the possession of articulate speech.”

“Mr. Swift MacNeill is not exactly beautiful. He has a rather prominent upper jaw with large teeth, which when angry he protrudes. Still the hon. member does not bear even a remote resemblance to the monkey-man with his name underneath in Punch (Toby, M.P.'s Diary) of August 23, and one can scarcely wonder at his resenting suoh a caricature violently.”

“As only three fragments of three skeletons have been unearthed, it is rather a petito principii to call it Pithecanthropus erectus, "the erect monkey man," for monkey it undoubtedly is, though possibly one nearer the form divine than the ourang-outang of the Malayan region.”

“Today, however, he is actually pursuing his investigations in search of the man-monkey or monkey man in the fossil bearing beds of that island which it is said was once joined to the mainland of Australia on the south and to Sumatra on the north.”

“The Piltdown man (discovered in 1912 in Britain) was a human with ape-type teeth. Broom's "monkey-man" had human teeth.”

“Cr Greenhill interjected that Cr M'Gregor was a "monkey man," whereupon the latter called the attention of the Mayor to his comments[.]”

“It is unnecessary to tell my readers that Billy Brookes is a born fool. Even Jack Annear is on a higher grade of intellectuality than is Billy. But even this poor monkey-man has never given before such remarkable proofs of his idiocy as he gave on Wednesday, when speaking in the Assembly on the Immigration question.”

“Then the old man told his daughter that as soon as the leaves came out on the peach tree in the garden, she'd have to marry the monkey man.”

“Tremwell's cheeks flushed. Dam this little monkey-man! Who did he think he was to try to take a rise out of the police?”

“A photograph of the first monkey-man ever to be studied scientifically in China - a creature born of a human mother but who walked on four feet, could not talk and was covered in brown fur - appeared yesterday in the Shangai Daily Wenhui Bao.”

“Monkey, a Japanese-made series, features a youthful Buddhist priest, a monkey-man, a smallish gentleman who fell into the belly of a pig, an artistic type who lived under water, and a dragon-turned-horse.”

“April 5, 2001, the Monkey Man attacks Anil Gopal.”

“Word is, he's on his way to Singapore in search of the Bukit Timah Monkey Man.”

“The most famous contemporary outbreak of Delhi heat hysteria was the Monkey Man panic of April and May 2001.”

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