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monkeyshine
Synonyms and Antonyms of monkeyshine
1
usually monkeyshines plural
wildly playful or mischievous behavior
childishness, clownishness, foolishness, funning, jesting, joking, nonsense, silliness, waggery
boisterousness, rambunctiousness, rowdiness, rowdyism, rumbustiousness [chiefly British]
devilry (or deviltry), impishness, knavery, mischief, mischievousness, prankishness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, trickery
cavorting, frivolity, frolicking, gamboling (or gambolling), merrymaking, playfulness, revelry, roistering, romping, sporting, sportiveness
2
usually monkeyshines plural
a playful or mischievous act intended as a joke
adventure, experience, game, lark, time
high jinks (also hijinks), horseplay, play, roughhousing, rowdyism
deed, feat, mission, performance, stunt
caprice, conceit, fancy, vagary, whim, whimsy (also whimsey)
deceit, deception, delusion, fooling, fraud, hanky-panky, hoodwinking, ruse, sham, stratagem, subterfuge, trickery, wile
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