Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An African monkey, Cercopithecus mona, of highly variegated coloration and docile disposition, often kept in captivity. See cut under Cercopithecus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A small, handsome, long-tailed West American monkey (Cercopithecus mona). The body is dark olive, with a spot of white on the haunches.

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  • noun Cercopithecus mona, a West African monkey.

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  • noun an island to the northwest of Wales

Etymologies

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From Spanish mona ("monkey")

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Examples

  • They are usually kind of strange, but I must admit, this is a "mona"-wreck for sure.

    Truth in Advertising 2009

  • Here and there they stand around smoking cigarettes, weed, or sometimes the poorer few inhale a harsh and addictive paint solvent known as mona.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • Here and there they stand around smoking cigarettes, weed, or sometimes the poorer few inhale a harsh and addictive paint solvent known as mona.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • Here and there they stand around smoking cigarettes, weed, or sometimes the poorer few inhale a harsh and addictive paint solvent known as mona.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • ;) - Josh Haley noise is a very generic term mona; I think you are trying to put it into the wrong context when thinking that - Michael J. Cohen

    Chris Pirillo 2008

  • ;) - Josh Haley noise is a very generic term mona; I think you are trying to put it into the wrong context when thinking that - Michael J. Cohen

    Chris Pirillo 2008

  • ;) - Josh Haley noise is a very generic term mona; I think you are trying to put it into the wrong context when thinking that - Michael J. Cohen

    Chris Pirillo 2008

  • Hence, after the manner of the Greeks and the Romans, [the months] take their name from the Moon, for the Moon is called mona and the month monath.

    unknown title 2009

  • If you have any "mona" question, just let me know.

    Truth in Advertising 2009

  • This last one is actually a "mona" that is given to children usually your godchild at Easter in Spain.

    Truth in Advertising 2009

Comments

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  • Vagina in some Italian dialects.

    October 14, 2008

  • *reminds self never to name pets or people "Mona"*

    October 14, 2008

  • Not in DaVinci's dialect, presumably...

    October 14, 2008

  • Ha! That was Monna. But who knows what Leo was thinking?

    October 14, 2008

  • In the slang of the Littoral region of Slovenia (near the Italian border), this word, a borrowing from Italian, can also mean "idiot" (as well as "vagina"). Curiously, the Slovene root -liz- means "lick". So you get the following crudité: Obstaja le ena Mona Liza pa nešteto monalizcev. ("There's only one Mona Lisa but countless c--tlickers.")

    October 14, 2008

  • Not enough c---lickers. More people should be more willing to do it. There should be just as many c---lickers as there are c---suckers. And why is either one a pejorative???

    (This comment isn't directed at anyone in particular! Just shaking my tiny fist in the air...)

    P.S. Rolig? Crudité means something really different in the U.S.... :D

    October 14, 2008

  • I thought you had paws?

    *is disenchanted*

    October 14, 2008

  • I agree with you on all points, c_b. I'm sure you remember (if only from the Dustin Hoffman movie) Lenny Bruce's famous routine about c--ksuckers. The same holds true for c--tlickers. Why either should be a pejorative has to do, I suspect, with age-old cultural taboos about the nether regions.

    As for crudité, that was my punning term for a crisp, celery-like vulgarism.

    October 14, 2008

  • I like crisp, celery-like vulgarisms the best of all the different kinds of vulgarisms.

    Reesetee, please. Have you never seen a bear make fists? *sigh* Just because my thumb is not opposable...

    October 14, 2008

  • See if you can dig up some etymology on those dialectical monas Pro, there's a good lad.

    October 14, 2008

  • I too agree with chained_bear and lenny_bruce. I don't like these terms, but I can understand why they're used pejoratively.

    The reason why cocksucker and (though I've never heard it) cuntlicker are pejoratives is that they imply a kneeling, subservient, worshipful position which in a combative situation signifies deference, debasement, defeat. If you're giving oral sex to someone, you're sort of worshipping them, and if you're worshipping your enemy then you've obviously lost.

    October 14, 2008

  • I thought your thumb was opposable?

    *is even more disenchanted*

    October 14, 2008

  • Well, I guess I'm arguing with the notion that to perform such an act is subservient or that it should be viewed that way.

    Reesetee... get a hold of yourself. I can still type faster than you.

    P.S. Yarb, you didn't say anything about rolig's nice celery.

    October 14, 2008

  • Celery.

    October 14, 2008