donkey-boy

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To work as a donkey-boy (for) ambitransitive
    — 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.'

词形变化

donkey-boys plural donkey-boys present,singular,third-person donkey-boying participle,present donkey-boyed participle,past donkey-boyed past

词源

词源 1
From donkey + boy.
词源 2
From donkey + boy.
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