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monk

noun
/mʌŋk/

Etymology

From Middle English monk, from Old English munuc, from Proto-West Germanic *munik, from Late Latin monicus, variant of monachus, from Ancient Greek μοναχός (monakhós, “single, solitary”), from μόνος (mónos, “alone”).

  1. derived from μοναχός
  2. derived from monicus
  3. inherited from *munik✻
  4. inherited from munuc
  5. inherited from monk

Definitions

  1. A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service.

    • In clusters on the plain, like cowlless monks at matins, sat the vultures that had settled on the corpse of the hyena impaled by the female rhino […]

  2. In earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who…

    In earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lived communally.

  3. Someone who leads an isolated life

    Someone who leads an isolated life; a loner, a hermit.

  4. ›+ 14 more definitions

    1. An unmarried man who does not have sexual relationships.

    2. A judge.

    3. An inkblot.

    4. A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus)

      A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthosternos.

    5. The bullfinch, common bullfinch, European bullfinch, or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula…

      The bullfinch, common bullfinch, European bullfinch, or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).

    6. The monkfish.

    7. A fuse for firing mines.

    8. To be a monk.

      • "Ah!" she cried, "thou art the prettiest little monk that ever monked it in this blessed, amorous town of Constance!"
      • Good people, if you're ever short of a job, don't take up monking for a living.

    9. To act like a monk

      To act like a monk; especially to be contemplative.

      • Many a scholar, making wings of candlewicks to flap away old darkness, monked his life to fasting long while feasting upon new light.
      • ...drinking: monking on a mountain: plodding in self-inflicted darkness so that the entrance into light would be heightened and supercharged: sacrifice and gain: the meek shall inherit the earth.
      • Sometimes, in the joint, time gets long. It's best then to just sit and think. I call it "monking," because you can become so inspired, with revelations and understandings. After a monking spell, you may get angry in a strange way.

    10. To monkey or meddle

      To monkey or meddle; to behave in a manner that is not systematic.

      • The Avatar spoke gently as she responded to his jibe. "Now fucking get aboard and stop monking on like a schoolboy, you silly earplug.
      • "You just go into the swamp and keep monking around, and maybe in a week er so, somebody'll open up and begin shooting at you, and if you live long enough to git curious about it, that'll be Tom Keefer."
      • ... because when a man is a corporal its all head work you might say and a man ought to keep their mind on their job evenings as well as day times and I felt like I couldn't do that and be monking with French at the same time...

    11. To be intoxicated or confused.

      • I looked up from the thick cotton mat, unsure where my legs were. “She looks monked up.” “maybe her brain is damaged, huh, miss Bryant?”
      • She looked down at herself and said, “Oh, I got that from monking.” “From what?” “Monking. You ain't never done meth, girl?” she said.

    12. To attach so that it sticks out.

      • Molten roofing north, lead dripping down south, stand like those immobilized columns of arctic water west, stalagmites, monked and housed or stamped and dudleyed east, in school texts.
      • All these controls and screens are monked on to a massive network of computers that coordinates the sights.
      • Those shelters formed chapels where aged forms of the implants monked out in built cells, little churchy cells that perished or grew plain, quivering and hidden from sight under alders.

    13. A monkey.

      • ‘We wuz talkin’ and the monk got loose, and she sent me off to catch him.’

    14. A surname.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at monk. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at monk. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at monk

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA