Donkey
['dɒŋkɪ] or ['dɔŋki]
Definition
(noun.) the symbol of the Democratic Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874.
Editor: Ronda--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An ass; or (less frequently) a mule.
(n.) A stupid or obstinate fellow; an ass.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Ass, mule.[2]. Simpleton, fool, DUNCE.
Checker: Lucy
Definition
n. the ass.—ns. Don′key-en′gine a small engine used in steam-vessels for loading and unloading pumping water into the boilers &c.; Don′key-pump an extra steam-pump.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a donkey braying in your face, denotes that you are about to be publicly insulted by a lewd and unscrupulous person. To hear the distant braying filling space with melancholy, you will receive wealth and release from unpleasant bonds by the death of some person close to you. If you see yourself riding on a donkey, you will visit foreign lands and make many explorations into places difficult of passage. To see others riding donkeys, denotes a meagre inheritance for them and a toiling life. To dream of seeing many of the old patriarchs traveling on donkeys, shows that the influence of Christians will be thrown against you in your selfish wantonness, causing you to ponder over the rights and duties of man to man. To drive a donkey, signifies that all your energies and pluck will be brought into play against a desperate effort on the part of enemies to overthrow you. If you are in love, evil women will cause you trouble. If you are kicked by this little animal, it shows that you are carrying on illicit connections, from which you will suffer much anxiety from fear of betrayal. If you lead one by a halter, you will be master of every situation, and lead women into your way of seeing things by flattery. To see children riding and driving donkeys, signifies health and obedience for them. To fall or be thrown from one, denotes ill luck and disappointment in secular affairs. Lovers will quarrel and separate. To see one dead, denotes satiated appetites, resulting from licentious excesses. To dream of drinking the milk of a donkey, denotes that whimsical desires will be gratified, even to the displacement of important duties. If you see in your dreams a strange donkey among your stock, or on your premises, you will inherit some valuable effects. To dream of coming into the possession of a donkey by present, or buying, you will attain to enviable heights in the business or social world, and if single, will contract a congenial marriage. To dream of a white donkey, denotes an assured and lasting fortune, which will enable you to pursue the pleasures or studies that lie nearest your heart. For a woman, it signals entrance into that society for which she has long entertained the most ardent desire. Woman has in her composition those qualities, docility and stubbornness, which tallies with the same qualities in the donkey; both being supplied from the same storehouse, mother Nature; and consequently, they would naturally maintain an affinity, and the ugliest phase of the donkey in her dreams are nothing but woman's nature being sounded for her warning, or
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Examples
- She laughed, and the Major did too, at his droll figure on donkey-back, with his long legs touching the ground. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Nor never vill; and there's another thing that no man never see, and that's a dead donkey. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I believe I would rather ride a donkey than any beast in the world. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A cold feeling came over me from head to foot, and I know it was a donkey! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Is it a donkey? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- In the hope of pleasing everyone, she took everyone's advice, and like the old man and his donkey in the fable suited nobody. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Come on a donkey, however, if you prefer it. Jane Austen. Emma.
- And now I made a mistake which any donkey might make, but a sensible man never. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Windy donkey as he was, it really amazed me that he could have the face to talk thus to mine. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I wish we had a donkey. Jane Austen. Emma.
- This occasioned a quick change in the spirits of a hoarse gentleman and a donkey, whom he had much perplexed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They consisted of a sort of saw-buck with a small mattress on it, and this furniture covered about half the donkey. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Lyme Regis is a sort of Brighton in miniature, all bustle and confusion, assembly-rooms, donkey-riding, raffling, &c. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The donkey-boys were lively young Egyptian rascals who could follow a donkey and keep him in a canter half a day without tiring. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We paid one guide and paid for one muleteer to each donkey. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The donkeys fell down and spilt us over their heads occasionally, but there was nothing for it but to mount and hurry on again. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We scrambled up the steep bank at the shabby town of Ghizeh, mounted the donkeys again, and scampered away. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We took little donkeys and started. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The donkeys were all good, all handsome, all strong and in good condition, all fast and all willing to prove it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We were compelled to jump over upwards of eighteen hundred donkeys, and only one person in the party was unseated less than sixty times by the camels. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The thing would be for us all to come on donkeys, Jane, Miss Bates, and meand my caro sposo walking by. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I am very glad it is our privilege to have donkeys instead of cars. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The latter trait shows how little better they are than the donkeys they eat and sleep with. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- No donkeys ever existed that were as hard to navigate as these, I think, or that had so many vile, exasperating instincts. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The little donkeys had saddles upon them which were made very high in order that the rider's feet might not drag the ground. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We mounted, and the boys ran behind us and kept the donkeys in a furious gallop, as is the fashion at Damascus. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The boys crowded about us, clamored around us, and slewed their donkeys exactly across our path, no matter which way we turned. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There was a group of sober little donkeys with naked, dusky children clambering about them, or sitting astride their rumps, or pulling their tails. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A fall from one of those donkeys is of little more consequence than rolling off a sofa. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We left the train and mounted the donkeys, along with our invited guests--pleasant young gentlemen from the officers' list of an American man-of-war. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Editor: Rhoda