monkeyess
nounEtymology From monkey + -ess.
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Archaic A female monkey.
- Here’s monkey Wieland, the youth of Old Drury, / Whose acting alone filled the manager’s purse; / His ma wa’n’t a monkeyess, I can assure ye, / But he certainly must have had one for his nurse. / Dear creatures: we can’t do without one, &c.1828, “The Monkey; or, Dear Creatures, We Can’t Do Without Them”, in The Universal Songster; or, Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete, Extensive, and Valuable Collection of Ancient and Modern Songs in the English Language: […], volume III, London: […] Jones and Co. […], page 98, column 1:
- The gown of the small shopkeeper’s wife may have been made by the dressmaker of the duchess, and the former may be the more ladylike woman of the two; but being without the substance that warrants the show, she is a monkeyess.1854 December, “Monkeyism”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, Edinburgh: Sutherland and Knox; […], page 749, column 1:
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- I say if this theory be correct, and man was originally a monkey and woman a monkeyess, then the job was not such a big thing after all—for any enterprising Yankee could, for a small consideration, have half a dozen generations of mixed varieties running in less than a month manufactured out of our Iowa soil.1872 January 18, Paddy Miles, “Hygiene and Darwinianism”, in The Weekly Oskaloosa Herald, volume 22, number 19, Oskaloosa, Ia., page [2], column 5:
- Darwin’s Monkey.—If Adam’s father was a monkey, / And Eve’s mother a monkeyess; / Then mastiffs firstly sprang from poodles, / A kennel of sprightly yankey doodles; / And that accounts for style and dress.1873 October 18, J. W. B., “Quaint Home Proverbs”, in Appleton Crescent, volume XXI, number 18, Appleton, Wis., front page, column 8:
- Monkeys are the best mimickers, the more civilized and refined imitate them in extracting labial sweetness from the monkeyesses.1877 November 15, Amicus, “A Leatherwood Melange, Containing Little Sense and Much Nonsense, Wherein Ah Sin Portrays His Beauideal”, in The Pulaski Citizen, volume 19, number 46, Pulaski, Tenn., page [3], column 6:
- It is these leaping tree-snakes probably which have given to monkeys their frantic terror at sight of a snake; and if in the anthropoid period any superior monkey and monkeyess had gained a securer place, defended by precipices from quadrupedal beasts, they might still have found one of these Leapers in their simial Eden.1878 July 20, “African Magnates in London: The King of Bonny and the Liberian Premier Seeing European Civilization”, in The Daily Gazette, volume LXXXVI, number 292, Wilmington, Del., page [3], column 4: