donkeyism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

donkey +‎ -ism

Noun[edit]

donkeyism (uncountable)

  1. 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.
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