Eeyore
English edit
Etymology edit
From the donkey in A.A. Milne's books Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, whose name is onomatopoeic from a donkey's bray (compare hee-haw).
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Noun edit
Eeyore (plural Eeyores)
- (figuratively) An excessively negative or pessimistic person.
- 1989, Terry Jones, Erik the Viking, Hal Leonard Corporation, published 1990, →ISBN, page 39:
- SVEN nods toward SNORRI THE MISERABLE - an Eeyore of a Viking if ever there were one.
- 2003, The Resurrection of the Son of God, volume 3, of Christian origins and the question of God, Nicholas Thomas Wright, Fortress Press, →ISBN, page 108:
- Ecclesiastes, who sometimes seems to cast himself as the Eeyore of the Old Testament, would simply shrug his shoulders and tell you to make the best of what you had.
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Translations edit
negative or pessimistic person