English

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)

Adjective
wikipedia|Brass Monkey

en-adj|pos=brass monkeys|-

#UK|idiom|informal very cold
#* Blimey, it's brass monkeys out there today.

• 2007-08-23 23:26 - Thryduulf - /* English */ formatting. Reclassifiy from noun to adjective (replace "brass monkeys" in the example sentence with "very cold" and it is clear it functions as an adjective

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