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noun

Donkey n. (pl. donkeys)

An ass; or (less frequently) a mule.

A stupid or obstinate fellow; an ass.

Donkey engine, a small auxiliary engine not used for propelling, but for pumping water into the boilers, raising heavy weights, and like purposes.

Donkey pump, a steam pump for feeding boilers, extinguishing fire, etc.; usually an auxiliary.

Donkey's eye (Bot.), the large round seed of the Mucuna pruriens, a tropical leguminous plant.

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Etymology of 'Donkey'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Donkey" Quotes from Famous Books

... Roger to find and engage a donkey which Win mounted without protest, after one glance at the climb before him, though he insisted on swinging the boxes of luncheon before him on the little animal's neck. Its owner was dismissed, Roger agreeing to pull the ...

— The Spanish Chest • Edna A. Brown

... of from ten to twenty, one behind the other. The owner rides ahead on a small donkey, and although his stirrups are short his feet almost touch the ground. He is continually shoving his pointed slippers into the flanks of his poor beast and placidly smoking his pipe. His servants are on foot. Unless the donkey leads, the camels refuse to stir. With long ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. X. • Kuno Francke

... the gipsy woman, who had left her donkey cart outside the line. "My philter! 'Twill keep-a your eyes bright and your cheeks red for ay. Secret of the Pharaohs, lady; ...

— The Mississippi Bubble • Emerson Hough

... thought it a good thing to sober him down a bit, but I really meant it too—that I hoped Blanchie and Elf would like Margaret, he really looked as if he wanted to knock me down—ungrateful little donkey, after all I'd done and gone through for him and his princess! But mamma glanced at me, and I understood that she meant that it was better to say nothing much to him. He would grow out of his fancies ...

— Peterkin • Mary Louisa Molesworth

... and a half by nine inches, in which space were the heads of a king and queen, with uplifted hands, in prayer; their daughters also in prayer, and looking very grim; a lamb, the slain dragon, and St. George, proudly prancing on what looks like a donkey, brandishing a sword over ...

— Passages From the English Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne

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