Meanings
- uncountableAll monkeys, collectively.
Mankind at the lowest point where monkey-kind is at its highest.
1850, Robert Southey, Southey's Common-place Book - Volume 3, page 8092 more examples
There is no instance on record where a baboon ever evolved into a human being, and science in attempting to unearth a "missing link" which it is claimed will connect mankind with monkeykind, is like a blind man hunting through a haystack to find a needle which isn't there.
1882, F.D. Richards (publisher), The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star - Volume 44, page 298What he witnessed was probably the first observed exchange of money for sex in the history of monkeykind.
2005, Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt, Monkey Business
Origin
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