Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small donkey, especially one used as a pack animal.
- noun Slang A drug smuggler who swallows bags filled with a drug, especially heroin or cocaine, to avoid detection by drug enforcement officers or customs officials.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A donkey.
- noun A name sometimes given in Great Britain to the alga Laminaria digitata.
- noun A name of species of grunts of the family Hœmulidæ, as Pomadasis macracanthus of the Pacific coast of tropical America.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), Southern U.S. A donkey.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a small
donkey
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small donkey used as a pack animal
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Why not use humor in teaching style, especially when it makes the point so well? burro, burrow A burro is an ass.
A Progressive on the Prairie » Booking Through Thursday: Grammar » Print 2010
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Why not use humor in teaching style, especially when it makes the point so well? burro, burrow A burro is an ass.
Booking Through Thursday: Grammar « A Progressive on the Prairie 2010
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I had one of the lowest IQs in my class and was called a burro by the kids and stupid by our teachers most of my life.
Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010
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I had one of the lowest IQs in my class and was called a burro by the kids and stupid by our teachers most of my life.
Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010
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I had one of the lowest IQs in my class and was called a burro by the kids and stupid by our teachers most of my life.
Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010
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If sitting on a burro is too distressing for the little one, there are peaceful grottoes, with the figure of Juan Diego kneeling before the Blessed Mother, that can serve as a background.
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If sitting on a burro is too distressing for the little one, there are peaceful grottoes, with the figure of Juan Diego kneeling before the Blessed Mother, that can serve as a background.
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In some cases even a burro is present, for the Virgin to mount.
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In some cases even a burro is present, for the Virgin to mount.
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Even when Dona Berta delivered our burros de leña, (firewood was measured in burro loads) small-talk was kept to a minimum.
Calle Rico 2005
john commented on the word burro
Donkey in Spanish.
October 24, 2008