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

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

A key hallmark of Murphy’s status is his voluminous gallery of offbeat characters — an impeccably attired prison convict, a clumsy professor, a wisecracking donkey, an elderly Jewish man and even an obese, abusive wife.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2025

Sometimes she sat down in the road like a donkey, too, and stared into space until she regained the energy to go on.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer