DONNER

Date "DONNER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references)

"DONNER" is a common misspelling or typo for: diner, dinner, done, donned, donor, downer.

Crosswords: DONNER

French (accord, bestow, contribute, deal, donate, exit, furnish, give, give in, give out, go out, hand, hand in, impart, mete, pass, pitch, play, present, render, spend, tender, to give, yield), French Canadian (give), German (boom, thunder).

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Inutility

Seek after impossibilities, strive after impossibilities; use vain efforts, labor in vain, roll the stone of Sisyphus, beat the air, lash the waves, battre l'eau avec un baton, donner un coup d'epee dans l'eau, fish in the air, milk the ram, drop a bucket into an empty well, sow the sand; bay the moon; preach to the winds, speak to the winds; whistle jigs to a milestone; kick against the pricks, se battre contre des moulins; lock the stable door when the steed is stolen, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen; (too late); hold a farthing candle to the sun; cast pearls before swine; (waste); carry coals to Newcastle; (redundancy); wash a blackamoor white; (impossible).

Rashness

Donner tete baissee; knock, one's bead against a wall; (be unskillful); rush on destruction; kick against the pricks, tempt Providence, go on a forlorn hope, go on a fool's errand.

Hey! Wasn't it around here that the Donner Party got snowbound? (The Shining; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick)

What was the Donner Party? (The Shining; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick)

Hi Donner. (Hooves of Fire; writing credit: Andy Riley; Kevin Cecil)

I'm not gonna die doin' loop-the-loops in the Donner Pass! (The Other Side of the Mountain Part II; writing credit: Douglas Day Stewart)

Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen! (Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town; writing credit: Romeo Muller)

Me donner des voiles (I Will Love Again; performing artist: Lara Fabian)

Blitz und Sonnenschein Donner (1936)

Donner Pass: The Road to Survival (1978)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds : The Donner Party Expedition, 1846 (My Name Is America) (reference)

• Jag, Jörn Johan Donner, född den 5 februari 1933 i Helsingfors, Finland (reference)

• Patty Reed's Doll: The Story of the Donner Party (reference)

• Winter of Entrapment : A New Look at the Donner Party (reference)

• The Archaeology of the Donner Party (Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Donner Party (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

People fishing in the Donner und Blitzen wild & scenic River near the Steens. Credit: Unknown.

Constructing Blitzen crossing bridge on South Steens Road in the Donner und Blitzen Wilderness Study Area. Credit: Unknown.

Tent campsite at Blitzen Crossing. South Fork of Donner and Blitzen WSA. (WSA 2-85G). Credit: Scott Moore.

Wild horses running along the northern border of Donner and Blitzen WSA. (WSA 2-85G). Credit: Scott Moore.

View up the Donner und Blitzen wild and scenic river near Page Springs Campground. Credit: Mark Armstrong.

Donner und Blitzen wild and scenic river riparian area and Redband Trout habitat. Credit: Gina Lampmau.

Juniper Zone in the Donner und Blitzen WSR Canyon in the South Steens. Credit: Unknown.

Similia smilibus, Je vais vous donner un fluxion sur l'autre joue... / [Jacques Gagné]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Tree where Joseph Donner pitched his tent and perished, Alder Creek, California. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dutch Gross, ex world war veteran, trapeze artist, airplane stunt man, friend of "Spike" Conner, the famous blood donner, and the only man to fall out of an airplane at 2000 feet and live (he fell on high tension wire) Better known as "the Flying Dutchma. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "DONNER": donnerd, donnered, donnert. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: donne, drone, redon.

-2 letters: doer, done, dore, neon, nerd, node, none, redo, rend, rode.

-3 letters: den, doe, don, dor, end, eon, ern, nod, nor, ode, one, ore, red, rod, roe.

-4 letters: de, do, ed, en, er, ne, no, od, oe, on, or, re.

+1 letter: dendron, donnerd, donnert.

+2 letters: androgen, condoner, dendrons, donnered, donniker, indentor, nonrated, normande, ordnance, redonned, renowned, unironed.

+3 letters: abandoner, adornment, androgens, androgyne, concerned, condemner, condemnor, condenser, condoners, contender, dehorning, denouncer, donnicker, donnikers, downrange, downtrend, endocrine, endorphin, endorsing, enthroned, environed, indentors, internode, inthroned, landowner, noncredit, nondancer, nondegree, nondesert, nondriver, nongraded, nonreader, ordinance, ordnances, pondering, redonning, rendition, renounced, roundness, roundsmen, sundowner, unadorned, uncrowned, underdone, undergone, undertone, unhonored, unmourned, unrounded, unsounder, unthroned, untrodden, wondering.

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