{
    "term": "monkey",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "image": "data/images/ma/mammals_primates.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "an animal with a long tail, that climbs trees and lives in hot countries. There are several types of monkey and they are related to apes and humans.",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Like humans, apes and monkeys live in complex social groupings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The disease affects monkeys and humans in similar ways."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A troop of monkeys crashed their way through the trees."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Scientists visiting the island encountered a troop of wild monkeys."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Animals"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["capuchin", "howler", "rhesus"],
                "… of monkeys": ["horde", "troop"],
                "monkey + verb": ["chatter", "hang", "swing"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a child who is active and likes playing tricks on people",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Come here, you cheeky little monkey!"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "£500",
            "labels": "(British English, slang)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "if you say that it is brass monkeys or brass monkey weather, you mean that it is very cold weather",
            "labels": "(British English, slang)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to free yourself of something that causes you worry or difficulty",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The team have never beaten Germany and they'll be desperate to get that monkey off their backs."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say, in a way that is not very polite, that you do not care about something, or are not at all interested in it",
            "labels": "(British English, slang)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I don’t give a monkey’s whether you want to come or not."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to make somebody seem stupid",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmʌŋki/",
                "audio": "mo/monkey/monkey__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmʌŋki/",
                "audio": "mo/monkey/monkey__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent.: of unknown origin, perhaps from Low German."
}