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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'brass monkeys' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions brass monkeys adjective (wikipedia, Brass Monkey) (pos=brass monkeys, -) (UK, idiom, informal) very cold Blimey, it's out there today. 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)        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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