donkeyism
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]donkeyism (uncountable)
- foolishness
- 1854, Letters on Questions pending between Great Britain & the United States. [Signed: Colbourn.], page 4:
- […] the fact that our Cabinet Ministers only spoke in allegory, nor that British diplomacy was nothing more than donkeyism misnamed.