assinico
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish asnico, diminutive of asno, from Latin asinus, cognate with English ass (donkey).
Noun edit
assinico (plural assinicos or assinicoes)
- (obsolete) A stupid fellow, an ass.
- 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida:
- Thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows; an assinico may tutor thee.
References edit
- asinego in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- “asinego”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.