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donkey boy

donkey boy is the alternative form of donkey-boy.

Meaning of donkey-boy

Noun

donkey-boy (plural donkey-boys)

  1. 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.1869, Howard Hopley, Under Egyptian Palms; or, Three Bachelors' Journeys On the Nile

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Forms of donkey boy

pluraldonkey boys

Questions about donkey boy

What is donkey boy the alternative form of?
Donkey boy is the alternative form of donkey-boy.

Words near donkey boy in the dictionary

  1. donkey beans
  2. donkey bid
  3. donkey bids
  4. donkey boiler
  5. donkey boilers
  6. donkey boy
  7. donkey boys
  8. donkey cock
  9. donkey cocks
  10. donkey dick
  11. donkey dicks

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