Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An ape; same as jacko, 1.
- n. Originally adopted by Buffon as the proper common name for the chimpanzee, it has become the favorite nickname for any of the smaller monkeys and the original use of the word has been forgotten. The name is a sophistication of a West African name. Buffon's jocko standing for enjocko, and that for West African engeco, ncheko, nshiego, enche-eko, etc., a chimpanzee.
Examples
“The Italian word gioco pronounced jocko means I play, so I thought, maybe, possibly, Domenico was trying to say, I play without limits, which might have meant he didnt abide by the rules of scoring.”
“Becker then, having carefully investigated the creature, pronounced it to be (as we already know) a full-grown specimen of a kind of ape, called by the Africans "the wild man of the woods," and by naturalists the _jocko_ or chimpanzee.”
“European planters, and the negroes of Africa, have no doubt embellished with many features taken from the description of the manners of the orang-otang, * the gibbon, the jocko or chimpanzee, and the pongo, followed us, during five years, from the northern to the southern hemisphere.”
“I again have to give the password to unlock. jocko”
“The one on Park Avenue South is a little jocko and business-forward for this particular application.”
“Toby: I still find signage along these lines to ... eli bishop: 'strue, jocko: i was pretty ... annargriff in The O refers to bike plan as "costly committment".”
“It is certainly faster, although the local listings results doesnt show? jocko said ... would it kill Google to finally give us researchers a PROXIMITY OPERATOR SUCH AS NEAR,”
“Art and Culture jocko The first era of photography: The British Library unveils an important archive of historic images tracing the development of the medium from its beginnings in 1839 to the early 1900s.”
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“Another homo jocko who enjoys the website outsports.com alerted me to this news release from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation which announces the creation of a "Associate Director of National News / Sports Desk – New York, N.Y." position.”
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primates
big ones,small ones,as many as
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Scrabble words which start with the l...
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You Damned Dirty Ape!
Primates.
lemur, bush baby, galago, tarsier, potto, loris, marmoset, monkey, tamarin, capuchin, squirrel monkey, night monkey and 44 more...
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