What is "monkeying"

Usage examples of "monkeying".

Why, most likely Kloofman and Danton would have a dozen aneurysms pop in their aging arteries when they found out that Quellen’s department was monkeying with the structure of the past.

His own job involved test tubes, and a certain amount of monkeying around with the image (as yet unsacred) of cow and sheep and stallion.

My monkeying with Nellie must have touched a nerve so sore that the whole firm was going into a spasm.

I don't think you have far to look for the chap who is monkeying around with it.

Such monkeying jeopardized everybody’s status in the present, and those who had the most status to lose—the Class Ones—were the ones who would get most agitated over the investigation.

They want you to go on TV and tell him to quit monkeying around and get on the plane.

And hasn’t he given you orders lots of times to quit monkeying around us?

The same little wagtail that sends postmen messages to make a five mile sidetrip to pick up special mail, while she's back at the inn monkeying with the mail he was carrying to start off with.

In fact, it was just this sort of monkeying in private alien affairs that had gotten humanity into hot water before.

If some native were to start monkeying around with it, I'd just send it scooting out into the lagoon.