English

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Etymology

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From donkey +‎ -ism.

Noun

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donkeyism (uncountable)

  1. foolishness
    • 1854, Letters on Questions pending between Great Britain & the United States. [Signed: Colbourn.], page 4:
      [] the fact that our Cabinet Ministers only spoke in allegory, nor that British diplomacy was nothing more than donkeyism misnamed.