See monkey around on Wiktionary
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{ "forms": [ { "form": "monkeys around", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "monkeying around", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "monkeyed around", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "monkeyed around", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "*" }, "expansion": "monkey around (third-person singular simple present monkeys around, present participle monkeying around, simple past and past participle monkeyed around)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "related": [ { "word": "barrel of monkeys" }, { "word": "monkeyshine" }, { "word": "monkey up" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English idioms", "English informal terms", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English phrasal verbs", "English phrasal verbs formed with \"around\"", "English terms with quotations", "English verbs", "Entries with translation boxes", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Terms with Finnish translations", "Terms with French translations", "Terms with German translations", "Terms with Ingrian translations", "Terms with Maori translations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1967, Robert Bernard Sherman, Richard Morton Sherman (lyrics and music), “I Wan’na Be like You (The Monkey Song)”, in The Jungle Book, performed by Louis Prima and Phil Harris:", "text": "I wanna be a man, mancub / And stroll right into town / And be just like the other men / I'm tired of monkeyin' around!", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To act foolishly." ], "links": [ [ "act", "act#Verb" ], [ "foolishly", "foolishly" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(informal, idiomatic) To act foolishly." ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "monkey about" } ], "tags": [ "idiomatic", "informal" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "audio": "En-au-monkey around.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b3/En-au-monkey_around.ogg/En-au-monkey_around.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/En-au-monkey_around.ogg" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "to act foolishly", "word": "temppuilla" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "to act foolishly", "word": "faire le singe" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "to act foolishly", "word": "herumalbern" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "to act foolishly", "word": "Unfug treiben" }, { "code": "izh", "lang": "Ingrian", "sense": "to act foolishly", "word": "mutkitella" }, { "code": "mi", "lang": "Maori", "sense": "to act foolishly", "word": "mākahi" } ], "word": "monkey around" }
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