Monkey: portable meaning and literal meaning

Russian language is complicated and interesting because many words have not one but two or several different meanings. The noun "monkey" is not an exception. The portable value of it is used even more often than the zoological term.

Basic Values

Both adults and very young children know that this is a small monkey. It belongs to the higher primates, the distinctive feature is a rather narrow nose and a long tail.

• Monkeys are medium or small.
• In the world there are 25 kinds of monkeys.
• Children, who among you knows where they live, what do the monkeys look like and what they eat?
• Did the well-known monkey from Krylov's fable have points?
• Monkeys move around the trees with long meter-long tails.
• Monkeys steal food from local residents.

The diminutive-caressing of the old man's name "Martyn" is also Martyr. The portable meaning of the word or not, think and decide for yourself.

• All his considerable fortune (money, estate and bonds) he left his beloved son Martyshka.
• The monkey slept almost all day in the apple orchard.
• Monkey is a rare, almost forgotten, name.
• The name Martin means "belonging to Mars".

In addition, on the middle Volga the same word is called a seagull.

• And you know that the popular name of the seagull is "monkey".
• Over the lake flew white monkeys.
• At dawn, the hungry cries of the monkeys woke up the tired, and therefore angry, fishermen and their dogs.
• Monkeys eat fish.

Monkey: a portable value

In colloquial speech, a monkey or a monkey is often called a restless child, imitating someone funny, adopting absolutely different manners, gestures, words and grimaces.

When this is called an adult, the word "monkey" in figurative meaning means "unpleasant, ugly, ugly person." This word can offend or offend, because before you can call someone, you need to think very carefully.

Exercises for the development of speech

Study the examples and make your suggestions with the word "monkey" in a figurative meaning:

• Enough to be engaged in nonsense: this is nothing but a mertyshkin work!
• You in this dress are a real monkey, ugly and funny.
• Literature in the ninth grade was conducted by an unpleasant monkey: a rotten, ugly, rough old woman.
• The man with a laugh answered: "This red-headed monkey near the sandbox is my youngest daughter Maruska."
• My group is visited by some monkeys: it is almost impossible to calm them down at the beginning of the lesson.
• Why are Svetlana's sisters so beautiful, and she was born such a monkey?