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donkeyism

noun

Etymology

From donkey + -ism.

  1. derived from don
  2. inherited from *donekie✻ — “a miniature dun horse”
  3. suffixed as donkeyism — “donkey + ism”

Definitions

  1. foolishness

    • […] the fact that our Cabinet Ministers only spoke in allegory, nor that British diplomacy was nothing more than donkeyism misnamed.

The neighborhood

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