donkey-boy
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.61 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
verb
To work as a donkey-boy (for)
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "But the people upon the rock had no time to think of the cruel fate of the donkey-boys.."
- "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."
- "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.'"
- "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."
- "Mohammed, when he was not donkey-boying, was the chief howling dervish of Luxor."