Green’s Dictionary of Slang

possessing a very large penis.

1888–94

‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) VII 1422: [chapter heading] The donkey-hung one. — His letches.

a notably large penis.

1888–94

‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) VII 1429: Just then Sarah met the man with the donkey prick.

in possession of a notably large penis.

1966		Trimble 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases.
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 211: having more than seven inches of cock [...] donkey-rigged.
1984		Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 328/1: late C.19–20.
1997		Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 87 Dec. n.p.: donkey rigged adj. Possessing a large penis.

anything excellent, admirable, first-rate.

1997

Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 87 Dec. n.p.: dog’s bollocks euph. Bees knees; donkey’s knob.

(Aus.) the act of lighting a new cigarette from the lighted tip of another; also as v.

1995		T. Conigrave Holding the Man [internet] When my cigarette was down to the butt I took out another and did a donkey root.
2003		Ridley & Turner That’s Unusual 221: Gary: How about an Escort? Kath: Oh, donkey root? Yes, I read somewhere, Gary, that the more I smoke, the smaller the baby’ll be.
2011		‘H.G. Nelson’ My Life in Shorts [ebook] Halfway through, at the turn, Ed would donkey root the one from behind the ear off the lit butt and head to the judge in a cloud of smoke.

to masturbate.

1965		in Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms.
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular.

(US) sexual intercourse.

2017

T. Pluck Bad Boy Boogie [ebook] I went back for one last taste of hay for the donkey, and you know what? She asked for me.

to masturbate.

1990

R. Campbell Sweet La-La Land (1999) 99: There was queers in there [...] They’d be pulling their donkeys all night, beating their meat.

(Aus.) a pickpocket.

1919

V. Marshall World of Living Dead (1969) 129: The ‘donkey-dipper’ is another kind of pick-pocket. He works alone, and his methods are to grip, to rip, and to run.

a euph. for bullshit n.

1926		J.C. Ferris X Bar Boys on the Ranch 2: Aw, donkey-dust! Who do you think you are — Methuselah?
1946		Story 89: What are you trying to give us? [...] what kind of donkey dust is that?
1956		H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 285: Donkeydust, eh? Ain’t that what all women are? All wives?
1967		O.V. Garrison Spy Government 160: The notion [...] that every story is carefully ‘checked out’ in order fairly to present all sides is also donkey-dust blown from the Fourth Estate corral.
1983		J. Nobile Portrait of Love 137: Too bad he’s so fulla donkey dust about art.
1993		R.F. Tax ‘Today’s Immigrant – Tomorrow’s Victim’ in Amer. Engineer May III:3 🌐 They argue; if we don’t import our students from offshore, America will lose its technological leadership. Donkey dust!
2001		R.R. Wells Moonshadow 17: ‘Donkey dust!’ I screamed in his face before stomping off. [...] ‘Here I am, trying to maintain a professoional demeanor and your contribution is donkey dust!’.
2009		M. Hansbury Law of Attraction 6: I’m here to tell you that these ideas are donkey dust!

see separate entries.

(W.I.) an inflated price, one only a fool would pay.

1968

in Cassidy & LePage Dict. Jam. Eng. (1980).

(US) a formal banquet.

1958		J.T. Godfrey Look of Eagles 15: Have made special arrangements for you to be guest of honor at a Donkey Roast to be held on the night of your arrival.
1964		N.Y. Post 31 Dec. 3: [The] benefit party at $100 a ticket [...] promises to be a real fine donkey roast [W&F].
1982		New Yorker Nov. 🌐 I recently attended a local Democratic Party affair, called a ‘Donkey Roast,’ at which I received an award for ‘Putting Amarillo on the Map.’.
2001		‘Puns of the Weak’ at UGA Humor List 28 Dec. 🌐 Are you going to the donkey roast tonight. It should be a lot of fun. Everyone gets a piece of ass.

see coon’s age under coon n.

1. (Aus./US) a straw palliasse.

1867		Party Papers (House of Commons) 63 17: Many a man comes on board without a monkey -jacket or a change of clothing in his chest; he brings under his arm a mattress stuffed with a donkey’s breakfast; throws it into his bunk; goes to sleep upon it.
1868		C. Chapman All About Ships 7: One straw bed, commonly known among sailors as a donkey’s breakfast.
1876		C. Chapman 1st 10 Years of a Sailor’s Life 158: You had your ‘donkey’s breakfast’ (i.e., straw bed), two blankets, a rug, and a nice clean hammock to lash them up in.
1883		R.B. Dixon Fore & Aft 5: A mattress, which he called a ‘donkey’s breakfast’ from its being filled with straw.
1895		Coburg Leader (Vic.) 12 Oct. 4/4: Clansee looked well in his donkey’s breakfast Saturday.
1898		F. Norris Moran of the Lady Letty 41: Kitchell showed him his bunk with it’s ‘donkey’s breakfast’.
1916		‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 7: We slept on the usual ‘donkey’s breakfast,’ of course, but it isn’t the worst bed to sleep on.
1925		(con. WWI) Fraser & Gibbons Soldier and Sailor Words 81: Donkey’s Breakfast: A straw mattress.
1933		M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 210: The mattress, a typical ‘donkey’s breakfast,’ stuffed with crackly straw.
1945		R.S. Close Love me Sailor 165: I sent a hand to get my donkey’s breakfast. We rolled the old man on it.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).
1961		S. Hugill Shanties from the Seven Seas 593: Donkey. ‘Donkey’s breakfast’, the name of the straw palliasse on which a seaman slept.
1977		(con. 1920s–30s) S. McAughtry Sinking of the Kenbane Head 18: Each carrying the long seaman’s bag over one shoulder and with their mattresses under the other arm. Known as the ‘donkey’s breakfast’.
1993		(con. 1930s) M. Verdon Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 152: My wages were three pound fifteen a month. Out of that, I had to feed myself and clothe myself and have my donkey’s breakfast on my back – that’s what you call the bundle of straw you used for a bed.

2. a straw hat.

1894		G.F. Northall Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 33: Even in Canada a straw hat is called ‘the donkey’s breakfast’.
1900–10		Stephens & O’Brien Materials for a Dict. of Aus. Sl. [unpub. ms.] 104: A straw hat a few years ago was known as a donkey’s breakfast. The cry to the wearer was ‘Ba, ba, who shook/stole the donkey’s breakfast?’.
1905		Sun. Times (Perth) 24 Sept. 4/8: As stated, the youths have straw hats-donkey’s breakfasts, as they are called.
1914		Sport (Adelaide) 3 Apr. 5/2: Bill S looks like Oscar Asche in his new donkey’s breakfast .
1967		‘Whisper All Aussie Dict.’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xxxiv 4/3: donkey’s breakfast: A straw hat.
1977		T. Ronan Mighty Men on Horseback 35: He wore a hat which was something between a cheap ‘donkey’s breakfast’ straw and a top price imported panama.
1982		N. Keesing Lily on the Dustbin 106: The school-uniform hats of today bear little resemblance to the ‘donkey’s breakfasts’ of bygone times.

a false collar; a detachable shirt-collar with long points.

1835		G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
1840		Flash Mirror 18: He has got such a slap up assortment of dickies, donky’s ears, frills, fogles, wipes, neck quids, warm poultices for the winter [etc].
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.

(US black) a complete mess, a farcical situation.

1992

J. Mowry Way Past Cool 258: You think that, then we best just call down this whole goddam donkey show right here an now, man!

(Aus.) to defeat easily.

1984		Sun-Herald (Sydney) 30 Sept. 65: Hawthorn donkey-walloped Essendon in last year’s one-sided grand final by 83 points [GAW4].
2009		T. Mcintyre Will Our Children Ever Know Peace 273: I realised Norman had to be donkey deep in it, as there was nobody else who could pull the strings.

a large vagina.

2003

Makaveli Don Killuminati posting 29 Jun. on RapChoice at ezboard.com 🌐 forget rap go learn to be a back up dancer, trick / with ur pu$$y slacker than a donkey’s yawn / from all those years of doing honkey porn.

(N.Z.) immersed in, up to one’s neck in.

1918		Chronicle NZEF 2 Aug. 12: The T.M.’s are donkey-deep in cricket [DNZE].
c.1926		‘The Mixer’ Transport Workers’ Song Bk 67: I’m ‘donkey-deep’ in fractions / Since I got the ha’p’ny rise / I’m on the ‘skin’ in decimals, And my brain is all afire / To try and make the increase spread [DNZE].
1945		White’s Aviation (NZ) 1-2 2/2: MacLaren [...] became donkey-deep in that job again while secretary Ralph Stedman was on active service.
1969		F. Sargeson Joy of the Worm 146: According to Scripture he was wallowing donkey deep in sin.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 65: donkey deep Enthusiastic participation, eg, ‘MP Rodney Hide dives into any perks debate in Parliament donkey deep.’ Early C20.

a phr. shouted after anyone wearing a white hat, and the reply is ‘The man in the white hat’.

1842		Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 3 Sept. n.p.: The universal shout of [...] ‘‘whole stole the donkey? ’ ‘The man with the white hat’.
1863		J.S. Sauzade Garret van Horn 26: In particular was I amused by a large fat man in a white hat among the constables, who, it seemed, had at some period of his life purloined an ass, for one mischievous urchin was constantly shouting, ‘Who stole the donkey?’ and another would reply, ‘The man in the white hat’.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict. 123: I am unable to explain the phrase, but any one wearing a white hat, whether in town or country, is shouted after invariably by the street urchins, ‘Who stole the donkey?’ to which another in the gang replies, ‘The man in the white hat,’ and they then disperse.
1866		Letters by an Odd Boy 192: Another boy [...] being out of the reach of that young gentleman’s hand and foot, said or sung, or rather shouted, ‘Who stole the donkey?’.
1889		Sporting Times 3 Aug. 3, col. 5: Who stole the donkey? The man with the white hat! This was a very popular street colloquy some years ago [F&H].
1894		G.F. Northall Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 33: Who stole the donkey’s dinner?Answer. ‘Him with the straw brimmer.’.