The Russian language is complex and interesting because many words have not one, but two or more different meanings. The noun "monkey" is no exception. Its figurative meaning is used even more often than the zoological term.
Basic values
Both adults and very young children know that this is a little monkey. It belongs to the higher primates, a distinctive feature is a rather narrow nose and a long tail.
- Monkeys are medium to small in size.
- There are 25 species of monkeys in the world.
- Children, how many of you know where they live, how monkeys look and what they eat?
- Did glasses help the famous monkey from Krylov's fable?
- Monkeys move through trees with long meter-long tails.
- Monkeys are stealing food from the locals.
Diminutive of the old male name "Martyn" - also Monkey. Whether it is a figurative meaning of the word or not, think and decide for yourself.
- He left all his considerable fortune (money, estate and bonds) to his beloved son Monkey.
- The monkey slept in the apple orchard almost all day.
- Monkey - rare, almostforgotten, name.
- The name Martyn means "belonging to Mars".
Besides, on the middle Volga the same word is called a seagull.
- Do you know that the popular name for seagulls is "monkey".
- White monkeys flew over the lake.
- At dawn, the hungry cries of monkeys woke tired, and therefore angry, fishermen and their dogs.
- Monkeys eat fish.
Monkey: figurative meaning
In colloquial speech, a monkey or a monkey is often called a restless child, amusingly imitating someone, adopting manners, gestures, words and grimaces that are absolutely not characteristic of him.
When an adult is called that, the word "monkey" in a figurative sense means "an unpleasant, ugly, ugly person." This word can offend or offend, therefore, before calling someone like that, you need to think very well.
Exercises for the development of speech
Study the examples and make up your own sentences with the word "monkey" figuratively:
- Stop fiddling around, this is nothing but monkey work!
- You are a real monkey in this outfit, ugly and funny.
- Literature in the ninth grade was taught by a nasty monkey: a fidgety, ugly, rude old woman.
- The man answered with a laugh: "This red-haired monkey near the sandbox is my youngest daughter Maruska."
- My group is visited only by monkeys: calm them down to the beginningclasses are almost impossible.
- Why are Svetlana's sisters so beautiful, and she was born such a monkey?
