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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