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donkeyboy

donkeyboy 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 donkeyboy

pluraldonkeyboys

Questions about donkeyboy

What is donkeyboy the alternative form of?
Donkeyboy is the alternative form of donkey-boy.

Words near donkeyboy in the dictionary

  1. donkey-punched
  2. donkey-punches
  3. donkey-punching
  4. donkey-work
  5. donkeyback
  6. donkeyboy
  7. donkeyboys
  8. donkeycock
  9. donkeycocks
  10. donkeydick
  11. donkeydicks

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