{"senses": [{"examples": [{"text": "The sailors alleged, and probably believed, that such cats were the result of the cross between a monkey and a cat, which we recognize to be preposterous despite that the Siamese evinces in his nature a monkeyesque temperament and disposition which may well have inspired the concept of such hybridization.", "ref": "1962 [1952], Milo G. Denlinger, The Complete Siamese Cat, New York, N.Y.: Howell Book House, page 44:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[203, 214]]}, {"text": "The old man who runs the benevolent association is finally worn down by Wittman's manic, monkeyesque one-man performance […]", "ref": "1999, Diane Simmons, Maxine Hong Kingston, New York, N.Y.: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, page 157:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[89, 100]]}, {"text": "I hadn't noticed that tree-swinging and other howler monkeyesque behaviour has helped them any, but maybe you'll get different mileage.", "ref": "2008 September 25, Deirdre Sholto Douglas, “A glimpse into the Void...”, in soc.culture.scottish (Usenet):", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[53, 64]]}], "links": [["monkey", "monkey"]], "synonyms": [{"word": "monkeyish"}, {"word": "monkeylike"}], "categories": ["English adjectives", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English piecewise doublets", "English terms suffixed with -esque", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries"], "glosses": ["Resembling or characteristic of monkeys (animal)."]}], "pos": "adj", "head_templates": [{"name": "en-adj", "args": {}, "expansion": "monkeyesque (comparative more monkeyesque, superlative most monkeyesque)"}], "forms": [{"form": "more monkeyesque", "tags": ["comparative"]}, {"form": "most monkeyesque", "tags": ["superlative"]}], "etymology_text": "From monkey + -esque. Piecewise doublet of monkeyish.", "etymology_templates": [{"name": "af", "args": {"1": "en", "2": "monkey", "3": "-esque"}, "expansion": "monkey + -esque"}, {"name": "piecewise doublet", "args": {"1": "en", "2": "monkeyish"}, "expansion": "Piecewise doublet of monkeyish"}], "word": "monkeyesque", "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en"}