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donkey (n.)
1785, originally slang, perhaps a diminutive from
dun
"dull gray-brown," the form perhaps influenced by
monkey
. Or possibly from a familiar form of
Duncan
(compare
dobbin
). The older English word was
ass
(n.1).
