Synonyms of the word

monkey

• n. Any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from…
• n. (informal) Any nonhuman primate, including apes.
• n. (informal) A mischievous child.
• n. (Britain, slang) Five hundred pounds sterling.
• n. (slang) A person or the role of the person on the sidecar platform of a motorcycle involved in sidecar…
• n. (slang) A person with minimal intelligence and/or an unattractive appearance.
• n. (blackjack) A face card.
• n. (slang) A menial employee who does a repetitive job, as in code monkey, grease monkey, phone monkey, powder…
• n. The weight or hammer of a pile driver; a heavy mass of iron, which, being raised high, falls on the head…
• n. A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
• v. (informal) To meddle; to mess with; to interfere; to fiddle.

child

• n. A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal…
• n. (with possessive) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
• n. (with possessive) One's descendants, regardless of age.
• n. (figuratively) A figurative offspring, particularly.

fiddle

• n. (music) Any of various bowed string instruments, often used to refer to a violin when played in any of…
• n. A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves shaped like the musical instrument.
• n. An adjustment intended to cover up a basic flaw.
• n. A fraud; a scam.
• n. (nautical) On board a ship or boat, a rail or batten around the edge of a table or stove to prevent objects…
• v. To play aimlessly.
• v. To adjust in order to cover a basic flaw or fraud etc.
• v. (music) To play traditional tunes on a violin in a non-classical style.
• v. To touch or fidget with something in a restless or nervous way, or tinker with something in an attempt…

fry

• v. (transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.
• v. (intransitive) To cook in hot fat.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To suffer because of too much heat.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To be executed by the electric chair.
• v. (transitive, informal) To destroy (something, usually electronic) with excessive heat, voltage, or current.
• n. (usually in plural fries) (mainly Canada and US) A fried strip of potato.
• n. (Ireland, Britain) A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
• n. (colloquial, archaic) A state of excitement.
• n. (now chiefly Britain dialectal) Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
• n. Young fish; fishlings.
• n. (archaic) A swarm, especially of something small (a fry of children).
• n. (Britain dialectal) The spawn of frogs.
• n. A kind of sieve.
• n. A drain.

imp

• n. (obsolete) A young shoot of a plant, tree etc.
• n. (obsolete) A scion, offspring; a child.
• n. A young or inferior devil; a malevolent supernatural creature, similar to a demon but smaller and less…
• n. A mischievous child.
• n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair…
• n. A baby Tasmanian devil.
• v. (obsolete) To plant or engraft.
• v. (archaic) To graft, implant; to set or fix.
• v. (falconry) To engraft feathers into a bird's wing.
• v. To eke out, strengthen, enlarge.

kid

• n. A young goat.
• n. Of a female goat, the state of being pregnant: in kid.
• n. Kidskin.
• n. (uncountable) The meat of a young goat.
• n. A young antelope.
• n. (informal) a child (usually), teenager, or young adult; a juvenile.
• n. (colloquial) An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.
• n. (nautical) A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.
• n. (informal) A person whose childhood took place in a particular decade or area.
• n. (informal) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
• n. (used in the vocative) Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To make a fool of (someone).
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To make a joke with (someone).
• v. (intransitive) Of a goat, to give birth to kids.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To joke.
• n. A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze.

manipulate

• v. (transitive) To move, arrange or operate something using the hands.
• v. (transitive) To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something.
• v. (transitive, medicine) To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose.
• v. (transitive) To influence or control someone in order to achieve a specific purpose, especially one that…

minor

• adj. Of little significance or importance.
• adj. (music) Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the…
• adj. (music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.
• n. A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities…
• n. A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who…
• n. (mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix.
• n. (British slang, dated) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
• n. (zoology) A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
• v. To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.

nestling

• n. A small bird that is still confined to the nest.
• n. (obsolete) A nest; a receptacle.
• v. present participle of nestle.
• n. The act of one who nestles.

nipper

• n. One who, or that which, nips.
• n. (usually in the plural) Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.
• n. (slang) A child.
• n. (Australia) A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.
• n. (Canada, slang, Newfoundland) A mosquito.
• n. One of four foreteeth in a horse.
• n. (obsolete) A satirist.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
• n. A fish, the cunner.
• n. A European crab (Polybius henslowii).
• n. The claws of a crab or lobster.
• n. (dated) A machine used by a ticket inspector to stamp passengers' tickets.

potter

• n. One who makes pots and other ceramic wares.
• n. One who places flowers or other plants inside their pots.
• n. One who pots meats or other eatables.
• n. One who hawks crockery or earthenware.
• n. The red-bellied terrapin, Pseudemys rubriventris (species of turtle).
• n. The chicken turtle, Deirochelys reticularia.
• v. (obsolete) To poke repeatedly.
• v. (Britain) To act in a vague or unmotivated way.
• v. (Britain) To move slowly or aimlessly. (Often potter about, potter around.).

primate

• n. (zoology) A mammal of the order Primates, including simians and prosimians.
• n. (informal) A simian anthropoid; an ape, human or monkey.
• n. (ecclesiastical) In the Catholic Church, a rare title conferred to or claimed by the sees of certain archbishops,…
• n. (ecclesiastical) In the Anglican Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of an ecclesiastic…

putter

• v. (intransitive) To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks.
• n. One who puts or places.
• n. One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine.
• n. (golf) A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
• n. (golf) A person who is taking a putt or putting.
• v. To produce intermittent bursts of sound in the course of operating.

rapscallion

• n. A rascal, scamp, rogue, or scoundrel.
• n. (attributive) Roguish, disreputable.

rascal

• n. A dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster.
• n. A cheeky person or creature, sometimes diminutive; a troublemaker.
• n. A member of a criminal gang in Papua New Guinea.
• adj. (archaic) Low; lowly, part of or belonging to the common rabble.

scalawag

• n. (pejorative, archaic) A scrawny cow.
• n. (pejorative, archaic) A rascal.
• n. (pejorative, US, archaic or historical) Any white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction…

scallywag

• n. (pejorative, dated, chiefly Britain) A disreputable fellow, a good-for-nothing, a scapegrace, a blackguard.

scamp

• n. A rascal, swindler, or rogue; a ne'er-do-well.
• n. A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.
• v. (dated) To skimp; to do something in a skimpy or slipshod fashion.

shaver

• n. One who shaves.
• n. A barber, one whose occupation is to shave.
• n. A tool or machine for shaving; an electric razor.
• n. (slang, obsolete) One who is close in bargains; a sharper.
• n. One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer.
• n. (colloquial) A boy; a lad; a little fellow.

tamper

• n. A person or thing that tamps.
• n. A tool used to tamp something down, such as tobacco in a pipe.
• n. An envelope of neutron-reflecting material in a nuclear weapon, used to delay the expansion of the reacting…
• v. (intransitive) To alter by making unauthorized changes; to meddle.
• v. (in professional sports) To discuss future contracts against league rules with a player.

tiddler

• n. A small person.
• n. (Britain, informal) A small fish, especially a stickleback.

tike

• n. Alternative spelling of tyke (mongrel dog).
• n. A boorish person.
• n. Archaic form of tick (a kind of arthropod).

tinker

• n. an itinerant tinsmith and mender of household utensils made of tin.
• n. (dated, chiefly Britain and Ireland, offensive) A member of the travelling community. A gypsy.
• n. (usually with "little") A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.
• n. Someone who repairs, or attempts repair on anything mechanical (tinkers) or invents; a tinkerer.
• n. The act of repair or invention.
• n. (military, obsolete) A small mortar on the end of a staff.
• n. Any of various fish: the chub mackerel, the silverside, the skate, or a young mackerel about two years…
• n. A bird, the razor-billed auk.
• v. (intransitive) To fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental…
• v. (intransitive) To work as a tinker.

tyke

• n. (dialectal) A mongrel dog.
• n. (colloquial) A small child, especially a cheeky or mischievous one.
• n. (dated, chiefly Britain) A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.
• n. (Britain, informal) A person from Yorkshire; a Yorkshireman or Yorkshirewoman.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, informal, derogatory) A Roman Catholic.

work

• n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
• n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
• n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
• n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
• n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
• v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
• v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
• v. (transitive) To set into action.
• v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
• v. (intransitive) To ferment.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
• v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
• v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
• v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
• v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
• v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to work.
• v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
• v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
• v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
• v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

youngster

• n. A young person.