The Russian language is complicated and interesting because manywords have not one, but two or several different meanings. There is no exception and the noun "monkey". The figurative meaning of it 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 long tail.
- Monkeys have medium or small sizes.
- In the world there are 25 species of monkeys.
- Children, who among you knows where they live, what monkeys look like and what they eat?
- Did the famous monkey from Krylov's fable help the glasses?
- Monkeys move through the trees with the help of long meter tails.
- Monkeys steal food from local residents.
The diminutive from the old male name "Martin" is also Monkey. The figurative meaning of the word or not, think and decide for yourself.
- All his considerable fortune (money, estate and bonds), he left his beloved son Monkey.
- The monkey slept almost all day in the apple orchard.
- Monkey - a rare, almost forgotten, name.
- The name Martyn means "belonging to Mars."
In addition, on the middle Volga, the same word is called gull.
- And you know that the popular name of the gull is “monkey”.
- White monkeys were flying 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 who amusingly imitates someone, adopting absolutely unconventional manners, gestures, words and grimaces.
When an adult is so called, the word"monkey" in a figurative sense means "unpleasant, ugly, ugly person." This word can offend or offend, because before you call someone that way, you need to think very well.
Speech development exercises
Study the examples and make your sentences with the word "monkey" in a figurative sense:
- Enough of this nonsense: this is nothing but the monkey work!
- You're in this outfit a real monkey, ugly and funny.
- Literature in the ninth grade was led by a nasty monkey: nosy ugly rough old woman.
- A man with a laugh said: "This red-haired monkey near the sandbox is my youngest daughter Maruska."
- My group is visited only by monkeys: it is almost impossible to calm them down by the beginning of the lesson.
- Why are Svetlana's sisters such beauties, and she was born such a monkey?
