donkey

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Students treat institutional rituals as a farce and openly mock their principal - calling him Yamdoot after the Hindu god of death - a blustering figure who addresses them as "My dear donkey".

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

Behind him stood a faux Caribbean village—painted huts, dancers in island dress, even a live donkey.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

The best he can muster against fellow contestant Yamil “Yam Yam” Arocho is to bray like a donkey in labor distress that Arocho is full of “big, thick, ‘Traitor’ doo-doo.”

From Salon • Jan. 15, 2026

Ballots are still arriving from remote areas -- some only accessible by donkey or river boats -- and the declaration of a winner may still be days away.

From Barron's • Dec. 3, 2025

Calling our goat Milk and our donkey Nothing was strange enough, but giving an animal a name you would give a human was unheard of.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff