monkie

English

Noun

monkie (plural monkies)

Archaic spelling of monkey.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
  Now God helpe thee, poore Monkie: / But how wilt thou do for a Father?

Anagrams

Mineko, kinome

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