donkeyism

donkeyism

English

Etymology

donkey +‎ -ism

Noun

donkeyism (uncountable)

1. foolishness
   • 1854, Letters on Questions pending between Great Britain & the United States. [Signed: Colbourn.] (page 4)

     […] the fact that our Cabinet Ministers only spoke in allegory, nor that British diplomacy was nothing more than donkeyism misnamed.