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donkey-boy en · NOUN

From donkey + boy.

A person (usually, but not always, a boy) who cares for and drives a donkey that carries a tourist or the luggage of a tourist.
- But the people upon the rock had no time to think of the cruel fate of the donkey-boys.. 1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Desert Drama:
- He said, further, that, in the whole course of his experience, north and south, he had never fallen in with any to match the Cairo donkey-boys. 1869, Howard Hopley, Under Egyptian Palms; or, Three Bachelors' Journeys On the Nile:
- All our donkey-boys, except Joseph, seemed to be called Mohammed, and Joseph's name was not really Joseph—he had only adopted it for the convenience of English patrons. 2013, Douglas Sladen, Queer Things About Egypt:

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donkey-boys	Number=Plur		lexicographic

From donkey + boy.

(ambitransitive) To work as a donkey-boy (for)
- A new Mohammed Hassan, who donkey-boyed me, told me Botros had ten thousand feddans and Aboo Stayt eight thousand, figures varying much from the old Md. Hassan's, three years ago. 1936, Charles Edwin Wilbour, Jean Capart, Travels in Egypt, page 378:
- Mohammed, when he was not donkey-boying, was the chief howling dervish of Luxor. 2013, Douglas Sladen, Queer Things About Egypt:
- But no, she said, 'He be "donkey-boying" down on the sands at L—. Wonderful set on donkeys his mind has been ever since the time he was a boy; seems like they was fellow-beings for him.' 1907, Horace Gordon Hutchinson, Nature's Moods and Tenses, page 282:

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donkey-boys	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic
donkey-boying	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
donkey-boyed	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
donkey-boyed	Tense=Past	lexicographic