mangabey
noun
mangabey is a noun meaning “Any of several large, arboreal Old World monkeys in the genera Cercocebus and Lophocebus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-N-G-A-B-E-Y, and it appears about once in every 66 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of mangabey is mangabeys.
What does mangabey mean?
noun
- 1
Any of several large, arboreal Old World monkeys in the genera Cercocebus and Lophocebus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of mangabey
- mangabeys plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is mangabey?
Mangabey appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does mangabey come from?
So called by Buffon from Mangaby, in Madagascar, where he erroneously supposed them to be native.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).