donkeyism

noun

donkeyism

noun

Etymology From donkey + -ism.

1

foolishness

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

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