Meaning of monkeyspeak | Babel Free

Definitions

The language supposedly used by monkeys.

uncountable

Examples

“Meronym: oo oo aa aa”

“So the starlings employ calls which differentiate between aerial and terrestrial predators, and the vervets tune in and decipher them just as effectively as they use their own ‘monkeyspeak’.”

“You need a guide like our machete-wielding Cofan Indian to point things out to you. Such as the distant chatter of tamarin monkeys amid the squawking of macaws and toucans. Silent and still, we wait while the guide calls out to them in fluent monkeyspeak. And over they come, a dozen tiny tamarin monkeys. Then off they go again, when Bill shouts: “Oh look, monkeys!””

“Shave the monkey. There may be some resistance. Like small children, monkeys can be willful creatures and will stomp around the room, protesting: “I know how to shave MYSELF!!” At this point, you must be firm. “Are you going to come over here and get shaved or do you want to lose a privilege?” The monkey might say: “Eeeech?” which is monkeyspeak for “What kind of privilege are we talking about here?””

“In the monkeytail code, the “m” represented “1”; the “o”, “2”; the “n”, “3”, and so forth up to the “l” for zero. […] In partial reparations for allowing the column content to plunge to such depths as monkeyspeak, we now follow with a topic of more relevance.”

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