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Definition: Donkey |
DonkeyNoun1. The symbol of the Democratic Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874. 2. Domestic beast of burden descended from the African wild ass; patient but stubborn. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "donkey" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Note: Donkey \Don"key\, noun; plural Donkeys. [Probably dun, in allusion to the color of the animal a diminutive termination.]. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of a donkey braying in your face, denotes that you are about to be publicly insulted by a lewd and unscrupulous person. To hear the distant braying filling space with melancholy, you will receive wealth and release from unpleasant bonds by the death of some person close to you. If you see yourself riding on a donkey, you will visit foreign lands and make many explorations into places difficult of passage. To see others riding donkeys, denotes a meagre inheritance for them and a toiling life. To dream of seeing many of the old patriarchs traveling on donkeys, shows that the influence of Christians will be thrown against you in your selfish wantonness, causing you to ponder over the rights and duties of man to man. To drive a donkey, signifies that all your energies and pluck will be brought into play against a desperate effort on the part of enemies to overthrow you. If you are in love, evil women will cause you trouble. If you are kicked by this little animal, it shows that you are carrying on illicit connections, from which you will suffer much anxiety from fear of betrayal. If you lead one by a halter, you will be master of every situation, and lead women into your way of seeing things by flattery. To see children riding and driving donkeys, signifies health and obedience for them. To fall or be thrown from one, denotes ill luck and disappointment in secular affairs. Lovers will quarrel and separate. To see one dead, denotes satiated appetites, resulting from licentious excesses. To dream of drinking the milk of a donkey, denotes that whimsical desires will be gratified, even to the displacement of important duties. If you see in your dreams a strange donkey among your stock, or on your premises, you will inherit some valuable effects. To dream of coming into the possession of a donkey by present, or buying, you will attain to enviable heights in the business or social world, and if single, will contract a congenial marriage. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | A portable engine mounted on a vehicle or sled and equipped with cable and winch drums, and used for yarding, skidding, or loading. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Donkey An ass. It was made to rhyme with "monkey," but is never now so pronounced. The word means a little tawny or dun-coloured animal. Donkey. The cross of the donkey's back is popularly attributed to the honour conferred on the beast by our Lord, who rode on an ass in "His triumphant entry" into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. (See Christian Traditions.) The donkey means one thing and the driver another. Different people see from different standpoints, their own interest in every case directing their judgment. The allusion is to a fable in Phædrus, where a donkey-driver exhorts his donkey to flee, as the enemy is at hand. The donkey asks if the enemy will load him with double pack-saddles. "No," says the man. "Then," replies the donkey, "what care I whether you are my master or someone else?" To ride the black donkey. To be pigheaded, obstinate like a donkey. Black is added, not so much to designate the colour, as to express what is bad. Two more, and up goes the donkey - i.e. two pennies more, and the donkey shall be balanced on the top of the pole or ladder. It is said to a braggart, and means - what you have said is wonderful, but if we admit it without gainsaying we shall soon be treated with something still more astounding. Who ate the donkey? When the French were in their flight from Spain, after the battle of Vittoria, some stragglers entered a village and demanded rations. The villagers killed a donkey, and served it to their hated foes. Next day they continued their flight, and were waylaid by the villagers, who assaulted them most murderously, jeering them as they did so with the shout, "Who ate the donkey?" Who stole the donkey? This was for many years a jeer against policemen. When the force was first established a donkey was stolen, but the police failed to discover the thief, and this failure gave rise to the laugh against them. Who stole the donkey? Answer: "The man with the white hat." It was said, in the middle of the nineteenth century, that white hats were made of the skins of donkeys, and that many donkeys were stolen and sold to hatters. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Multilingual Slang | Panjabi (gadha). (references) |
Slang in 1811 | DONKEY, DONKEY DICK. A he, or jack ass: called donkey, perhaps, from the Spanish or don-like gravity of that animal, intitled also the king of Spain's trumpeter. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The donkey or domestic ass (Equus asinus) is a domesticated animal used to carry loads, pull carts, and carry riders. The wild ancestors of the donkey are African. Donkeys are equids, generally smaller than the domestic horse, though mammoth jacks can be as large as 17 hands (170cm at the shoulder). They have long ears and great endurance.
A male donkey (jackass or jack) can be crossed with a female horse to produce a mule and a male horse crossed with a female donkey (jennet or jenny) to produce a hinny. These crossings are almost always sterile due to the fact that horses have 64 chromosomes and donkeys have 62, producing offspring with 63 chromosomes.
Cultural aspects
Their reputation for stubborness is due to some handlers' misinterpretation of their highly-developed sense of self preservation. It is difficult to force or frighten a donkey into doing something it sees as contrary to its own best interest. Donkeys are quite intelligent, cautious, friendly, playful, and eager to learn. Once you have earned their confidence they can be willing and companionable partners in work and recreation.
The ass was a symbol of the Egyptian god, Ra, the Greek god Dionysus as well as Jesus Christ, who is said to have ridden the animal into Jerusalem; this is the origin of the cross on its shoulders. Greek mythology also includes the story of King Midas who judged against Apollo in favor of Pan during a musical contest and had his ears changed to those of a donkey as punishment.
An Indian tale has an ass dressed in a panther skin give himself away by braying, while one of Aesop's fables similarly has an ass dressed in a lion skin who gives himself away by braying. A German proverb claims a donkey can wear a lion suit but its ear will still stick out and give it away. English proverbs include better be the head of an ass than the tail of a horse, if an ass goes a-traveling, he'll not come back a horse and better ride on an ass that carries me home than a horse that throws me.
European folklore also claims that the tail of a donkey can be used to combat whooping cough or scorpion stings.
The donkey has long been a symbol of ignorance. Examples can be found in Aesop's Fables, Apuleius's The Golden Ass (The Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius) and Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Donkey."
Synonym: DonkeySynonym: domestic ass (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Carrier | Ass, donkey, jackass, mule, hinny; sumpter horse, sumpter mule; burro, cuddy, ladino; reindeer; camel, dromedary, llama, elephant; carrier pigeon. |
Fool | Noun: fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass; ninny, ninnyhammer; chowderhead, chucklehead; dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl; goose, goosecap; imbecile; gaby; radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany; trifler, babbler; pretty fellow; natural, niais. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Donkey |
| English words defined with "donkey": beast of burden, burro ♦ Donkeys ♦ hinny ♦ jack, jackass, jennet, jenny, jenny ass, jument ♦ mule ♦ Neddy ♦ silenus. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "donkey": Ass ♦ DONKEY DICK, donkey engineer ♦ Editor ♦ Fakenham Ghost ♦ He-ass, Huntingdon Sturgeon ♦ King of Spain's Trampeter ♦ LOGGING-EQUIPMENT MECHANIC ♦ SAWMILL WORKER, swamper. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "donkey": Easel. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Donkey" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Manx (bump, thump). |
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Screenplays | So, you think you could outclever us french folks with your silly, knees-bent, running-about, advancing behavior? I wave my private parts at your aunties, you cheesy-leather, second-hand, electric donkey bottom biters (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.) This soup tastes like donkey piss (Mononoke-hime; writing credit: Karl Tunberg) I'm a donkey on the edge (Shrek; writing credit: Ted Elliott) And remember, a shiny new donkey for whomever brings me the head of Colonel Montoya (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Please, I don't wanna be a donkey! Let me out of here (Pinocchio; writing credit: Aurelius Battaglia; Carlo Collodi) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Okey Dokey Donkey (1958) Tim Driscoll's Donkey (1955) Yankee Doodle Donkey (1944) The Hopeful Donkey (1943) Donkey Baseball (1935) | |
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![]() | A monkey helping preen a donkey in the Galapagos Islands. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Little Donkey, Led by Brown, Co. "G" 7" U.S.I., which was the sole means of transportation of the 7th Inft on the Santiago Campaign. (July 7"98). Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Boy with donkey head and fairies with butterfly wings] / Steele, 25. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Donkey head idol being worshipped and letter H. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Race to the White House with Wilson on a donkey and Taft on an elephant being bitten by T. Roosevelt on a bull moose. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | What's a poor donkey to do?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Three wise men and a Democratic donkey / p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Pacific & Atlantic Photos, Inc., New York City.. | ![]() | Charlotte Street, St. Augustine, Florida, with donkey and cart at left] / Barker, photographer, Niagara Falls, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Children of Lt. Montgomery C. Meigs, in donkey cart with dog, probably Mary Montgomery, Charles, Montgomery, and John Rodgers. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Photographer taking picture of group with donkey at crowded beach, Atlantic City, N.J. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "The golden donkey of calcutta" by FM Electronics Commentary: "The title really says it all." | "Donkey Farm" by Kenneth Love Commentary: "A miniature donkey farm." |
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| Upset donkey crying. | Scared donkey cry. | ||
| Hee-haw of a donkey. | |||
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The Talmud | If one man says to thee, ''Thou art a donkey,'' pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle. |
Winston Churchill | Thus, by every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | I really must talk to him about purchasing a donkey. |
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Health | Veterinarians, horse and donkey caretakers, abattoir workers, workers in laboratories where the organism is being handled or in areas where equines may be infected. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus and Aeacus, but is placable with an obolus; a severely virtuous censor, but so charitable withal that he tolerates the virtues of others and the vices of himself; who flings about him the splintering lightning and sturdy thunders of admonition till he resembles a bunch of firecrackers petulantly uttering his mind at the tail of a dog; then straightway murmurs a mild, melodious lay, soft as the cooing of a donkey intoning its prayer to the evening star. Master of mysteries and lord of law, high-pinnacled upon the throne of thought, his face suffused with the dim splendors of the Transfiguration, his legs intertwisted and his tongue a-cheek, the editor spills his will along the paper and cuts it off in lengths to suit. And at intervals from behind the veil of the temple is heard the voice of the foreman demanding three inches of wit and six lines of religious meditation, or bidding him turn off the wisdom and whack up some pathos. O, the Lord of Law on the Throne of Thought, A gilded impostor is he. Of shreds and patches his robes are wrought, His crown is brass, Himself an ass, And his power is fiddle-dee-dee. Prankily, crankily prating of naught, Silly old quilly old Monarch of Thought. Public opinion's camp-follower he, Thundering, blundering, plundering free. Affected, Ungracious, Suspected, Mendacious, Respected contemporaree! J.H. Bumbleshook |
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Jack Hanna | The big penguins in the South Pole actually walk to the South Pole and back. They eat krill as well as fish. This is a jackass penguin, or a black-footed penguin. Again, called that because he brays like a donkey. |
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| "Donkey" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.70% of the time. "Donkey" is used about 505 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 91.7% | 464 | 12,682 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.3% | 42 | 52,864 |
| Total | 100.00% | 505 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "donkey": donkey boiler ♦ donkey cart ♦ donkey engine ♦ donkey jacket ♦ donkey man ♦ Donkey pump ♦ donkey work ♦ female donkey ♦ talk the hind legs off a donkey ♦ talk the hind legsoff a donkey. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "donkey": donkey-beings, donkey-boys, donkey-brown, donkey-cart, donkey-dancing, donkey-drawn, donkey-driver, donkey-engines, donkey-fringe, donkey-head, donkey-jacket, donkey-loads, donkey-rides, donkey-run, donkey-saddles, donkey-skin, donkey-stick, donkey-stoning, donkey-trappings, donkey-vous, donkey-work, Donkey-y. | |
Ending with "donkey": one-donkey, pack-donkey. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
donkey | 2,343 | donkey kong country 3 | 88 |
donkey kong | 1,981 | country donkey gba kong rom | 81 |
amish donkey | 954 | donkey kong 64 cheat | 80 |
e donkey | 677 | donkey kong country 2 | 80 |
donkey kong country | 593 | donkey kong country snes rom | 78 |
donkey sex | 384 | donkey kong play | 78 |
ultra donkey | 355 | amish donkey.com | 77 |
steam donkey | 294 | amish donkey pool | 77 |
donkey show | 293 | donkey kong jr | 73 |
donkey kong 64 | 290 | pin the tail on the donkey | 70 |
miniature donkey | 247 | donkey let ride that | 62 |
donkey picture | 212 | basketball donkey | 61 |
donkey punch | 207 | rom snes donkey kong | 60 |
donkey kong country rom | 168 | donkey riding | 58 |
donkey download kong | 114 | donkey kong.com | 55 |
donkey dick | 113 | democrat designer donkey | 54 |
donkey kong country cheat | 104 | donkey file | 53 |
donkey kong 64 walk through | 96 | donkey.com ultra | 53 |
donkey kong rom | 92 | donkey ride | 53 |
donkey kong game | 88 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "donkey"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | groutjie (ass), esel (ass), donkie (ass). (various references) | |
Albanian | veshgjatë (ass), makinë e vogël me avull, kokëderr (balky, camelish, mule), hajvan (animal, beast, dope, idiot, imp, jackass, jay, moron, mutt, noodle), gomar (ass, cuddy, imbecility, jackass, moke, mutton head, Neddy, owl, stupid person). (various references) | |
Arabic | حمار (ass, burro, jackass, loutish, stupid), شخص عنيد. (various references) | |
Basque | asto (ass). (various references) | |
Blackfoot | omahksstooki. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | магаре (ass, dicky, jackass, moke). (various references) | |
Catalan | ase (ass). (various references) | |
Chamorro | buliku. (various references) | |
Chinese | 驢子 (ass), 驢 , 驴 (Donkeys). (various references) | |
Cornish | asen. (various references) | |
Czech | osel (ass, dunce, fool, jackass). (various references) | |
Danish | æsel (ass). (various references) | |
Dutch | ezel (ass, bench, easel, tressle, workbench). (various references) | |
Esperanto | azeno (ass), azena (ass's, donkey-, of an ass). (various references) | |
Faeroese | asni (ass), ásin (ass). (various references) | |
Farsi | خر (Asinine, Ass), الاغ (Ass). (various references) | |
Finnish | aasi (ass, dunce). (various references) | |
French | baudet (donkey stallion). (various references) | |
Frisian | ezel (ass). (various references) | |
German | esel (ass, asses, burros, goat, jackass, jackasses, moke). (various references) | |
Greek | όνοσ (ass, burro), γάϊδουρος, γάιδαροσ (ass, burro, jackass), βοηθητική μηχανή, Ελκυστήρας μετατόπισης (donkey engine, hauler). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חמור (ass, austere, burro, critical, drastic, grave, jackass, moke, serious, severe, stern, strict, stringent). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szamár (asinine, ass, burro, dickey, dicky, goosey, goosey-gander, jerusalem pony, moke, nincompoop, ninny). (various references) | |
Indonesian | keledai (ass, burro). (various references) | |
Irish | asal. (various references) | |
Italian | asino (ass, jackass, moke), ciuco (ass, moke). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 驢馬 , ドレス店 (a patient's call button in a hospital, Don, Don Juan, don't mind, don't-know group, draw, draw ball, drawer, drawing, drawn game, drawnwork, dress store, dresser, dressing, dressing paper, dressing room, dressmaker, dressy, drone, drop, drop goal, drop handle, drop-kick, dropout, dungarees, dwarf, game under lights, knife, knife ridge, knight, naive, nervous, Niagara, nice, nice guy, nice middle, nice shot, Nigeria, night, night cream, night game, night hospital, night latch, night show, night spot, night table, nightcap, nightclub, nightdress, nightgown, nightingale, nightmare, nightwear, Nike Hercules, Nile, Nile green, nurse, nurse bank, nurse call, nurse station, nursery, nursery tale, nylon latch, sunday, the firing of guns), 兎馬 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ドンキー , うさぎうま, ろば. (various references) | |
Korean | 나귀 (Donkeys). (various references) | |
Manx | assyl (ass). (various references) | |
Norwegian | esel (ass). (various references) | |
Occitan | ase (ass). (various references) | |
Papiamen | buro (ass), buriku (ass), buriko (ass). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onkeyday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | burro (ass, dull, fool, idiot, ignoramus, jackass, moke, mule, neddy, silly, stupid), asno (ass, jackass). (various references) | |
Romanian | tâmpit (addle, addle-brained, awfully, blunt, brain-hampered, chucklehead, clod, crass, daft, dense, dim, Dotty, duffer, dull, dumb, dumb bell, fiddling, fool, idiot, imbecile, jay, lubber-head, lunkhead, mutt, piffling, pillock, sap, squarehead, stupid, sucker), prost (ass, bad, badly, beef-witted, blinkard, blockhead, blunt, booby, calf, cheap, clumsy, cock eyed, common, dead, dolt, doltish, dull, dullard, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, flat, fool, foolish, good for nothing, goof, goon, goose, Goosey, gull, harmful, idiot, idiotish, inhospitable, lousy, lubber-head, miserable, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, numskulled, oaf, oafish, pin head, poor, poorly, silly, simple, simpleton, snipe, soft, soft-headed, sorry, spoony, stupid, thoughtless, unfavorable, unfavourable, wretched, zombie), nãtãrãu (buffer, calf, fool, goofy, jay, sheep, sheepish, simpleton, witless), mãgar (ass, jackass, rascal). (various references) | |
Romansch | asen. (various references) | |
Romany | hur. (various references) | |
Russian | осел (ass, asses, cuddy, jackass, moke, mutton-head, Neddy). (various references) | |
Sepedi | esela. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | magarac (ass, dicky, jackass, moke, neddy). (various references) | |
Sicilian | sceccu. (various references) | |
Spanish | burro (ass, burro, dunce, idiot, jackass, moke, sawbuck, sawhorse), asno (ass, gondola, jackass). (various references) | |
Sranan | buriki (ass). (various references) | |
Swahili | punda (ass). (various references) | |
Swazi | i-mbóngolo. (various references) | |
Swedish | åsna (ass, dicky, jackass, moke). (various references) | |
Thai | ลา (ass). (various references) | |
Turkish | yedek (backup, duplicate, jury, pilot, refill, replacement, reserve, reserve service, reservist, spare, stand by, substitute), yardımcı buhar makinesi (donkey engine, donkey pump), yardımcı (accessary, accessory, acolyte, adjunct, aid, aide, ancillary, assistant, auxiliary, Band aid, booster, coadjutor, collateral, contributory, cooperative, deputy, friend, help, helper, helpful, helpmate, helpmeet, henchman, lieutenant, obliging, second, sidekick, stand by, sub, subsidiary, suffragan, supporter, supporting, vice-), merkep, exek (ass), eşek (asinine, ass, cabbagehead, Dickey, dicky, moke, Neddy), acil durumda kullanılan. (various references) | |
Turkmen | eюek. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | осел (ass, brayer, jackass, moke), дурень (ass, blunderhead, bone head, booby, bullhead, changeling, chump, clod, clot, dimwit, dolt, fool, fop, gander, imbecile, jackass, moke, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, omadhaun, owl, pinhead, pudding-head, softy, stupe, stupid, tomfool, you imbecile). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nói lải nhải, nói ba hoa. (various references) | |
Welsh | asyn (ass, he-ass). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | asina, asinae, asinam, asinarum, asinas, asini, asinis, asino, asinorum, asinos, asinum, asinus. (various references) |
| Spanish | 900-Modern | burrico. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "donkey": donkeys, donkeywork, donkeyworks. (additional references) | |
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"Donkey" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dauncey, dekey, denke, Denken, Denley, dinkey, dinkum, Dobney, Docksey, dokey, Domke, Donakey, Doney, Dongbei, Dongkhe, Donike, donker, donky, donnery, donnker, Donsey, dookey, doorkey, dorky, Doskey, Dronke, Dukey, duncery, duney, dunkee, dunkey, Dunky, Dunley, Dzonkwa, gonky, Odney, onkey. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "donkey" (pronounced dÄ"ngkē) |
| 4 | -Ä" ng k ē | swanky. |
| 3 | -ng k ē | chunky, clunky, cranky, dinky, junkie, junky, kinky, lanky, funky, hanky, honky, hunky, inky, monkey, Pinkie, pinky, punky, slinky, spunky, stinky. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-k-n-o-y" | |
-1 letter: doyen, kendo, yoked. | |
-2 letters: deny, done, dyke, dyne, keno, node, yoke, yond. | |
-3 letters: den, dey, doe, don, dye, end, eon, ken, key, nod, ode, oke, one, yen, yod, yok, yon. | |
-4 letters: de, do, ed, en, ne, no, od, oe, on, oy, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-k-n-o-y" | |
+1 letter: donkeys, unyoked. | |
+2 letters: keynoted, monkeyed. | |
+3 letters: ankylosed, monkeypod. | |
+4 letters: donkeywork, monkeypods. | |
+5 letters: bookbindery, cockneyfied, donkeyworks, keyboarding. | |
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