"donkeyish" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more donkeyish [comparative], most donkeyish [superlative]
Etymology: From donkey + -ish. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|donkey|ish}} donkey + -ish Head templates: {{en-adj}} donkeyish (comparative more donkeyish, superlative most donkeyish)
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a donkey; asinine.
    Sense id: en-donkeyish-en-adj-1TARldgr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ish

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          "text": "1885, \"Two English Men of Letters\" (uncredited), The Atlantic Monthly, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Volume 56, July, 1885, pp. 121-2, https://books.google.ca/books?id=8moCAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false\nHe is concerned with his mental and spiritual growth, and so deeply interested in it is he that he is willing to spread upon the record the testimony of his memory to what can scarcely be regarded as less than donkeyish stupidity in youth."
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          "ref": "1956, C. S. Lewis, chapter 7, in The Last Battle, Collins, published 1998",
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