assmanship
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editassmanship (uncountable)
- The skill of riding a donkey.
- 1828, Henry Angelo, Reminiscences of Henry Angelo, with Memoirs of His Late Father and Friends,[1], London: Henry Colburn, page 346:
- Ned Shuter’s assmanship, however, was not an unique performance, exhibited in this double character; for the celebrated Joe Haines, a comedian, in the reign of Queen Anne, spoke an epilogue on assback, at Lincoln’s-Inn-fields theatre;
- 1843, Thomas Wilson, The Pitman’s Pay and Other Poems, Gateshead: William Douglas, Notes, p. 96,[2]
- He had put the assmanship of many to the test, but none were able to sit him, whenever he had arrived at a suitable place for depositing his load […]
- 1906, E. V. Lucas, “Scourhill’s Adventures” in Forgotten Tales of Long Ago, London: Wells-Gardner-Darton, 1907, p. 163,[3]
- […] Master Scourhill would find himself much fatigued after his brilliant display of assmanship, which so much astonished the village.
- 2005, Bryan Gallagher, Barefoot in Mullyneeny[4], London: HarperCollins, page 133:
- Eventually the master blew the whistle, the asses were rehoused and we trooped back to school, sweating, excited, recounting mighty deeds of assmanship.