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A domestic animal, Equus asinus asinus, similar to a horse
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A stubborn person
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A fool
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A small auxiliary engine
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A bad poker player
Examples of donkey in a Sentence
In Harrisburg we saw a donkey like Neddy.
She found a narrow, rocky road and hopped from rock to road, surprised to see an older man leading a donkey pulling a cart ahead of her.
How I wish I could see my own donkey and my dear Lioness!
I think we are still at the donkey stage—and this is good news!
The pumps employed to force the oil through the pipes were at first of the single-cylinder or " donkey " type, but these were found to cause excessive wear - a defect remedied by the use of the Worthington pump now generally adopted.
I'll race the miserable wooden donkey any day in the week! cried the cab-horse.
Join Shrek, Fiona and Donkey, and bring a little color to their world.
Or did he take the mother along to reassure the young donkey colt?
Otherwise you appear to be a barking dog or a braying donkey.
We've seen Luigi play tennis, Donkey Kong hit the links, and Bowser blast a homerun, so it's only natural to see all these characters from Mushroom land head onto the soccer field.
Find printables from Shrek 3, including Fiona, Farquaad, Shrek, Donkey and Fairy Godmother.
Combine the idea with a carnival theme or games that are a throwback to the birthday parties of their elementary school days, like water balloon tosses, pin the tail on the donkey, and the clothes pin drop.
The target is the jack-o'-lantern's nose instead of the donkey's backside.
If you're a fan of the show and Gordon Ramsay's you probably can't wait to hear him call someone a "donkey" or "doughnut".
C. sylvicultor, of West Africa, is the largest species, and approaches a donkey in size.
The donkey, seeing the horse pulling an old cart full of cow manure cried out " Oh, what happened to you?
The donkey brayed, the hound barked, the cat mewed, and the rooster crowed.
It was I who attached the elastic to his donkey.
Among the NES classics found in Animal Crossing are Donkey Kong, Excitebike, and Balloon Fight.
The game that I got to play was King of Swing, a game in the Donkey Kong series.
The Colecovision tore into Atari's sales when it released its system bundled with the port Donkey Kong.
Nintendo continued to release their popular character games like Donkey Kong, Mario, and Yoshi in order to keep those core gamers.
Shigeru Miyamoto implants himself into the history of video games timeline by making Donkey Kong and introduces that plucky plumber, Mario.
Mainstays like Mario and Donkey Kong are here, as well as Fox McCloud from Star Fox, Captain Falcon from F-Zero, Ganondorf from Zelda, and even that yellow, electric rat-thing that we all affectionately know as Pikachu.
In addition to their duties as a talking alarm clock, Shrek and donkey move and interact with one another.
Some other fun activities for the kids to enjoy are coloring contests, "Pin the Tail on the Donkey" or a scavenger hunt.
Pin the Roof on the House (or the door, window, chimney or other feature) could be a fun variation on Pin the Tail on the Donkey for young guests.
This is a variation on the old "Pin the Tail on the Donkey" game.
For someone like Gordon Ramsay, who simply loves his expletives, calling someone a doughnut, banana or donkey out of anger seems really tame…and just a little bit funny.
Max defeats Blaster but refuses to kill him, which is a violation of the Bartertown laws, so he is tied to a donkey and sent into exile.
It wasn't our turn to pin the tail on the donkey.
The collection of animals included a donkey, horse, ostrich and a llama, all of which were either relaxing in the shade or inside the barn.
The ox-wagons with their solid wheels, and the curious water-wheels of brushwood with earthenware pots tied on to them and turned by a blindfolded donkey, are picturesque.
Standing as high as a large donkey, the argali is the finest of all the wild sheep, the horns of the rams, although of inferior length, being more massive than those of Ovis poli of the Pamirs.
This animal, whose remains occur in the Lower Pliocene of both Attica and Samos, was about the size of a donkey, and possessed three pairs of upper incisor teeth, of which the innermost were large and trihedral, recalling those of the existing genus.
Among domesticated animals are to be found the horse, mule, donkey, cattle, sheep and goats, dogs, fowls and pigs, ducks and geese.
Domestic animals include the horse and donkey in the plateaus, but baggage animals are rare in the coast-lands, where the tsetse fly is found.
Horses are comparatively few, and are seldom seen outside the large towns, the camel and donkey being the principal beasts of burden.
The camel, the horse and the donkey are the draught animals; the flesh of the first Geology and Geography of Arabia Petraea, Palestine and adjoining Districts (London, 1886).
For the supply of ordnance, baggage, and transport mules a large number of donkey stallions have been imported by the government annually from various European and other sources.
But the supply of suitable animals is not good, and their cost is large; so the breeding of donkey stallions has been undertaken at the Hissar farm in the Punjab.
There were people … Guardians? …wandering the compound and a corral nearby with a horse and donkey in it.
The creatures did not look pleasant or friendly, to be sure, and the shaggy man's donkey face became solemn, indeed.
Having seen how Neale's theory handles discourse anaphora and donkey anaphora, we turn to difficulties with the account.
There is, however, a further complication in Neale's theory that is invoked in the explanation of donkey anaphora.
But in the main, the donkey carts are gone.
The donkey Derby will hopefully probably be the last one I'll see again.
Everybody else walks, takes a dhow or uses donkey taxis.
In 1987 Vicki rescued the donkey ' Blackie ' from death in a fiesta in Spain.
I hear that Bob apparently wants to adopt the donkey, Edward, with whom he has worked recently.