English Explanatory Dictionary

monkey's wedding

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A sun shower.

Word forms

monkey's wedding monkeys' weddings

Etymology

Perhaps patterned after the Portuguese casamento de rapôsa, literally "vixen's wedding", used in the same sense. The Portuguese phrase may have been changed to casamento de macaco, "monkey's wedding", in Portugal's southern African colonies. Alternatively, it may have entered South African English from the Zulu phrase umshado we zinkawu, which literally means "wedding for monkeys".

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