What does pourch monkey mean? ?

Question

Someone said that today and i don't get it...please explain.

Answer 1

Do you mean "porch" monkey?  It's a lazy guy who sits on the porch all day.  Like couch potato.

Answer 2

porch monkey:

A term used to describe generally lazy people who sit on their porch and do nothing as the world passes by them. Popularized in the movie Clerks 2 by Randal graves who insisted that it wasn't a racial slur.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_porc...

a black person.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porch_monke...



A person who sits on the porch and watches the neighbors.



A derogatory for a person of african or african american decent. BUT it could also mean a generally lazy person.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph...

The term is a derogatory slur directed at people in low income neighborhoods, who frequently are seen hanging out , socializing on their porches for lack of other entertainment. I think it sad however, that hanging out with one's own family/peers without a t.v. on and finding things to do that don't cost money is actually viewed by more priveledged folk as "backwards".

It was also a derogatory term for Portuguese or Portuguese-speaking Cape Verdean people. That was according to someone who lived in Fall River Mass where there are many of them and prejudice is high. The first part of the name comes from its sounding like the first part of Portuguese.