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donkey-boy

noun

Etymology

From donkey + boy.

  1. derived from *bʰā-✻
  2. derived from *bō-✻ — “brother, close male relation”
  3. inherited from *bōjô✻ — “younger brother, young male relation”
  4. inherited from *bōjō✻
  5. inherited from *bōia✻ — “boy”
  6. inherited from boy//boye — “servant, commoner, knave, boy”
  7. compounded as donkey-boy — “donkey + boy”

Definitions

  1. A person (usually, but not always, a boy) who cares for and drives a donkey that carries…

    A person (usually, but not always, a boy) who cares for and drives a donkey that carries a tourist or the luggage of a tourist.

    • He said, further, that, in the whole course of his experience, north and south, he had never fallen in with any to match the Cairo donkey-boys.
    • But the people upon the rock had no time to think of the cruel fate of the donkey-boys..
    • All our donkey-boys, except Joseph, seemed to be called Mohammed, and Joseph's name was not really Joseph—he had only adopted it for the convenience of English patrons.

  2. To work as a donkey-boy (for)

    • But no, she said, 'He be "donkey-boying" down on the sands at L—. Wonderful set on donkeys his mind has been ever since the time he was a boy; seems like they was fellow-beings for him.'
    • A new Mohammed Hassan, who donkey-boyed me, told me Botros had ten thousand feddans and Aboo Stayt eight thousand, figures varying much from the old Md. Hassan's, three years ago.
    • Mohammed, when he was not donkey-boying, was the chief howling dervish of Luxor.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA