- an animal of the horse family, with short legs and long ears. People ride donkeys or use them to carry heavy loads.Topics Animalsb2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + donkey
- ride
- bray
- graze
- cart
- ride
- work
- …
Word Originlate 18th cent. (originally pronounced to rhyme with monkey): perhaps from dun, or from the name Duncan.Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See donkey in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarydonkey’s (years)
- (British English, informal) a very long time
- We've known each other for donkey's years.
- I met him once, but that was donkey’s years ago.
- This technology has been around for donkey's.
talk the hind legs off a donkey
- (informal) to talk too much, especially about things that are boring or not important
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