monkeyesque

comparative more monkeyesque · superlative most monkeyesque

1. Resembling or characteristic of monkeys (animal).

   The old man who runs the benevolent association is finally worn down by Wittman's manic, monkeyesque one-man performance […]

   1999, Diane Simmons, Maxine Hong Kingston, New York, N.Y.: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, page 157

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   The sailors alleged, and probably believed, that such cats were the result of the cross between a monkey and a cat, which we recognize to be preposterous despite that the Siamese evinces in his nature a monkeyesque temperament and disposition which may well have inspired the concept of such hybridization.

   1962 [1952], Milo G. Denlinger, The Complete Siamese Cat, New York, N.Y.: Howell Book House, page 44

   I hadn't noticed that tree-swinging and other howler monkeyesque behaviour has helped them any, but maybe you'll get different mileage.

   2008 September 25, Deirdre Sholto Douglas, “A glimpse into the Void...”, in soc.culture.scottish (Usenet)

   Synonyms: monkeyish, monkeylike