donkey-boy

noun 1verb 1

Definitions

noun

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.

But the people upon the rock had no time to think of the cruel fate of the donkey-boys..

verb

1

To work as a donkey-boy (for)

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.

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