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donkeyish

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Resembling or characteristic of a donkey; asinine.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1885, "Two English Men of Letters" (uncredited), The Atlantic Monthly, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Volume 56, July, 1885, pp. 121-2, https://books.google.ca/books?id=8moCAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false He is concerned with his mental and spiritual growth, and so deeply interested in it is he that he is willing to spread upon the record the testimony of his memory to what can scarcely be regarded as less than donkeyish stupidity in youth.

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History

Etymology

From donkey + -ish.