English Dictionary

monk

/mʌŋk/

verb

To be a monk. / To act like a monk; especially to be contemplative. / To monkey or meddle; to behave in a manner that is not systematic. / To be intoxicated or confused.

He decided to monk and live a life of simplicity and meditation.

意味（1）

To be a monk.

Ah! she cried, thou art the prettiest little monk that ever monked it in this blessed, amorous town of Constance!

意味（2）

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.

意味（3）

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.

意味（4）

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?”

意味（5）

To be attached in a way that 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.