dunkey

I find that I'm good from about 5 in the morning to noon time then I can do dunkey work like my phone calls and do some proofreading or reading, but as far as writing a narrative and telling a story and making it adventuresome for the reader I find that I have to be up on my game and I'm not very good at night or at the end of a day.

Mud Soldiers: Life Inside the New American Army 1989

Another night it's a dunkey he'd be, harnessed to a little cart, an 'bein' kicked in the belly and made to draw stones.

The Blue Lagoon: a romance 1907

"But look at yer dunkey ther 'all dress'd up in the Liberal colours?"

Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 1873

"Oh yes, sir -- better, I expect, for it was a lovely little pig when it was fatted up and killed last Christmas; one of those little fat, short-legged, dunkey ones with turn-up snouts.

The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise George Manville Fenn 1870