Das englische Wort für Affe ist
monkey

Englische Definition

Übersetzungen für Affe und ihre Definitionen

monkey
1. Substantiv:
2. [1] der Affe
[1] "The cougar generally subsists on birds and small quadrupeds, such as young deer, raccoons, skunks, and the like: in South America the monkeys and peccaries frequently become its prey."

monkey
1. subst. Any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouc
He had been visiting an area zoo when a monkey swung from its tree perch, swiped his glasses and hurled them into a hippo hole.
2. subst. (informal) Any nonhuman primate, including apes.
Chimpanzees are known to form bands to hunt and kill other monkeys.
3. subst. (informal) A mischievous child.
Stop misbehaving, you little monkey!
She's a cheeky monkey.
4. subst. A dance move popular in the 1960s.
5. subst. (UK, slang) Five hundred pounds sterling.
6. subst. (slang) A person or the role of the person on the sidecar platform of a motorcycle involved in sidecar racing.
7. subst. (slang) A person with minimal intelligence and/or an unattractive appearance
8. subst. (blackjack) A face card.
9. subst. (slang) A menial employee who does a repetitive job, as in code monkey, grease monkey, phone monkey, powder monkey.
10. subst. The weight or hammer of a pile driver; a heavy mass of iron, which, being raised high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging.
11. subst. A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
12. subst. (slang) A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
13. v. (informal) To meddle; to mess with
Please don't monkey with the controls if you don't know what you're doing.

ape
1. Substantiv:
2. [1] Zoologie: der Menschenaffe, der Affe (ohne Schwanz)
3. [2] übertragen: der Nachäffer

ape
1. subst. A primate of the clade Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.
2. subst. Any such primate other than a human.
3. subst. (derogatory) An uncivilised person.
4. subst. One who apes; a foolish imitator.
5. v. (intransitive) To behave like an ape.
6. v. To imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly.
7. adj. (slang) Wild; crazy.
We were ape over the new look.
He went ape when he heard the bad news.

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