different between manche vs monkey

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French manche. Doublet of maunch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??nt?/

Noun

manche (plural manches)

1. Obsolete form of maunch (a sleeve)
2. (music, rare) The neck of a violin.

Anagrams

• Machen

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m???/

Etymology 1

From Middle French manche, from Old French manche, from Latin manica, from manus (“hand”). Doublet of manga.

Noun

manche f (plural manches)

1. sleeve (clothing)
2. (sports) round
3. (tennis) set

   Synonym: set

4. (snooker) frame
5. (baseball) inning

Derived terms

• autre paire de manches
• effet de manche
• retrousser ses manches

Related terms

• main

Etymology 2

From Middle French manche, from Old French manche, from Vulgar Latin *manicus, from Latin manus (“hand”). Compare Italian manico.

Noun

manche m (plural manches)

1. handle
2. (popular) unhandy person

Derived terms

• comme un manche
• con comme un manche
• jeter le manche après la cognée
• manche à balai

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Italian mancia.

Noun

manche f (plural manches)

1. begging (for money)

   Il fait la manche tous les dimanche matin devant l'église.

   He begs every Sunday morning in front of the church.

Usage notes

Only found in faire la manche.

Anagrams

• chanmé

Further reading

• “manche” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

Pronoun

manche

1. inflection of manch:
   1. nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?man.ke/
• Rhymes: -anke

Adjective

manche

1. feminine plural of manco

Noun

manche f (plural manche)

1. heat (sports)
2. hand, round (of cards)

Noun

manche f pl

1. plural of manca

Middle French

Etymology 1

From Old French manche, from Latin manica.

Noun

manche f (plural manches)

1. sleeve

Etymology 2

From Old French manche, from Vulgar Latin *manicus, from Latin manus.

Noun

manche m (plural manches)

1. handle

Norman

Etymology

From Old French manche, from Latin manica, from manus (“hand”) (compare main).

Noun

manche f (plural manches)

1. (Jersey) sleeve

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin manica.

Alternative forms

• maunche (chiefly Anglo-Norman)

Noun

manche f (oblique plural manches, nominative singular manche, nominative plural manches)

1. sleeve

Descendants

• ? English: maunch
• Middle French: manche
  • French: manche
• ? Italian: mancia
  • ? English: mancia

Etymology 2

From Vulgar Latin *manicus, from Latin manus.

Noun

manche m (oblique plural manches, nominative singular manches, nominative plural manche)

1. handle

Descendants

• Middle French: manche
  • French: manche

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?m??.?i/
• Hyphenation: man?che

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French manche.

Noun

manche m (plural manches)

1. (aviation) yoke (column-mounted control wheel of an aircraft)

Etymology 2

Verb

manche

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of manchar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of manchar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of manchar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of manchar

Spanish

Verb

manche

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of manchar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of manchar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of manchar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of manchar.

English

Etymology

Uncertain. May be either derived from Middle English monk, or borrowed from Middle Low German Moneke, name of the son of Martin the Ape in Reynard the Fox (which may represent an unattested colloquial *moneke, which in turn is possibly a diminutive from Middle French monne, from Old Spanish mona, shortening of mamona, variant of maimón, from Arabic ????????? (maym?n, “baboon”)). Compare Old French Monequin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??ki/
• enPR: m?ng?ki
• Rhymes: -??ki

Noun

monkey (plural monkeys)

1. Any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouches.

   He had been visiting an area zoo when a monkey swung from its tree perch, swiped his glasses and hurled them into a hippo hole.

2. (informal) Any nonhuman simian primate, including apes.

3. (informal) A mischievous child.
   • 1909, Algernon Blackwood, You May Telephone From Here

     "Yes. He gets to Paris at seven in the morning. He promised to telephone the first thing."
     "You expensive little monkey!"
     "Why?"
     "It's ten shillings for three minutes, or something like that, and you have to go to the G.P.O. or the Mansion House or some such place, I believe."

4. A dance move popular in the 1960s.
5. (Britain, slang) Five hundred pounds sterling; (US, dated) five hundred dollars.
6. (slang) A person or the role of the person on the sidecar platform of a motorcycle involved in sidecar racing.
7. (slang) A person with minimal intelligence and/or an unattractive appearance
8. (blackjack) A face card.
9. (slang) A menial employee who does a repetitive job, as in code monkey, grease monkey, phone monkey, powder monkey.
10. The weight or hammer of a pile driver; a heavy mass of iron, which, being raised high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging.
11. (historical) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
12. (slang) A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
    • 1938, Alfred R. Lindesmith, "Argot of the Underworld Drug Addict", Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 29, Issue 2 (July-August):

      Monkey: a habit, as in "I have a monkey on my back." Usually used when one is sick from lack of drugs.

    • 1949, Nelson Algren, The Man with The Golden Arm:

      "Man, I wasn't hooked, I was crucified. The monkey got so big he was carryin' me. […] When I hear a junkie tell me he wants to kick the habit but he just can't I know he lies even if he don't know he does. He wants to carry the monkey, he's punishin' hisself for somethin' 'n don't even know it. […] Then I got forty grains 'n went up to the room 'n went from monkey to nothin' in twenny-eight days 'n that's nine-ten years ago 'n the monkey's dead."
      "The monkey's never dead, Fixer," Frankie told him knowingly.

    • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 431]:

      I thought I would like to learn about the dope scene anyway, and the boy must have some character, you know, if he got the monkey off his back (as they used to say in our time) without outside help.

13. A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.
14. (slang) A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.
    • 1864, Eneas Sweetland Dallas, Once a Week (volume 11, page 267)

      I was out rather late one night, when the foreman of my department, who owed me a grudge, abused me like a dog, and told me I might consider myself dismissed, and that I should be paid my wages in the morning. I don't know how I kept my hands off him, for my monkey was up; […]

    • 2019, John Hughes-Wilson, 1918 - Defeat into Victory: A Tommy Gunn Adventure (page 98)

      Reminded me of running up that hill by the Marne – or was it the Morin? – in 1914 when Kearey had got his face ripped open by a bullet and Hedley had got his monkey up [Lost his temper, Ed.] over the Huns killing 8 of my platoon.

15. (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) A black person.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Chukchi: ????? (ma?ky)
• ? Coeur d'Alene: moonki
• ? Irish: moncaí
• ? Navajo: mágí
• ? Scottish Gaelic: muncaidh
• ? Tumbuka: munkhwele
• ? Welsh: mwnci

Translations

Verb

monkey (third-person singular simple present monkeys, present participle monkeying, simple past and past participle monkeyed or monkied)

1. (intransitive, informal) To meddle; to mess (with).
   • 1920, Peter B. Kyne, The Understanding Heart, Chapter XII

     “As an inventor,” Bob Mason suggested, “you're a howling success at shooting craps! […] Why monkey with weak imitations when you can come close to the original?”

   Synonyms: interfere, fiddle

2. (transitive) To mimic; to ape.
   • 2011, Elizabeth Mosier, The Playgroup (page 83)

     He winked at Liza, who monkeyed him, holding her own eye shut.

Derived terms

• monkey around
• monkey up
• spank the monkey

Translations

See also

• ape
• primate

Anagrams

• My?ken