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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'brass monkey' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions brass monkey adjective (no comparative or superlative, used only before the noun) (idiom) said of the weather when it is very cold. It's weather today, isn't it? a cocktail of vodka, rum and orange juice, sometimes with the addition of galliano a kind of inexpensive liqueur an Australian beer Etymology: From the phrase cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.:The first recorded use of the term "brass monkey" appears to dates to 1857 when it was used in an apparently vulgar context by C.A. Abbey in his book Before the Mast, where on page 108 it says "It would freeze the tail off a brass monkey." Source: Lighter, J.E. ed. Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang. (New York: Random House, 1994): 262.. <br> False etymologies debunked : in Wikipedia :http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/brass.htm SPAM debunking from Snopes :http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq107.htm Naval Historic Society's SPAM Rebuttal        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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