"donkeyboy" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: donkeyboys [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} donkeyboy (plural donkeyboys)
  1. Alternative form of donkey-boy Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: donkey-boy
    Sense id: en-donkeyboy-en-noun-hqw-dSpG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Wynkyn de Worde, Informatiojn for Pilgrims (based in a great measure on William Wey, and published by Caxton) furnishes valuable hints regarding choice of cabin, contracts with skippers, provisions, lodgings on land, diet in the East, hire of mules and gratuities to donkeyboys.",
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          "ref": "2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 468:",
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          "ref": "2017, Lois Tilton, Noreen Doyle, “The Chapter of Coming Forth by Night”, in Paula Guran, editor, The Mammoth Book Of the Mummy:",
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