Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
assback en · ADV
Etymology
From ass + back.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) On the back of a donkey.
That samurai is surely fast alive
In his hunched and silhouetted dozing, assback,
In the blur of fog,
1970, Mark Perlberg, “Hiroshige”, in The Burning Field,, New York: William Morrow, page 7:[…] I should have thought a great chief had something better to do than to play chess either horseback or assback.
1850, George Walker, “A Game of Chess with Napoleon”, in Chess and Chess-Players, London: Charles J. Skeet, page 260:
Coordinates
horseback · muleback
Synonyms
donkeyback
assback en · NOUN
Etymology
From ass + back.
Meanings
-
The back of a donkey.
1994, Robert Kelly, “In Irish America” in Queen of Terrors, Kingston, NY: McPherson, p. 56,
[…] tune soft as the assback my Savior rode from Jericho to Caerleon.
The way of riding most used in this place is on assback.
1766, Tobias Smollett, Travels Through France and Italy, London: R. Baldwin, Volume 1, Letter 5, p. 74:Riding on assback was accounted a disgrace and a degradation to the Gothic hidalgo,
1846, Richard Ford, chapter 7, in Gatherings from Spain,, London: John Murray, page 74:1691, uncredited translators, Plutarch’s Morals, Part 2, London: T. Sawbridge et al., p. 224,
[…] they took her and set her on Ass-back, and led her round about the City,
Forms
Coordinates
horseback · muleback
Relateds
panniers · assload
Synonyms
donkeyback