English Explanatory Dictionary

brass monkeys

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Very cold.
noun
  1. plural of brass monkey
noun
  1. plural of Brass Monkey

Pronunciation

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Word forms

brass monkeys

Etymology

From the phrase cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey - supposedly a reference to the brass container for cannon balls on a British man-of-war (but this seems to have been discredited).

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