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Definition of Jackasses

1. jackass [n] - See also: jackass

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jackasses

Literary usage of Jackasses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"Ye jackasses of Ireland, You need no frantic orators, No riots in the cause ... YE jackasses OF IRELAND. In stable, shed, and lane, Whose ears, ..."

2. The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses by George Washington (1855)
"Let me, in the first place, * The King of Spain, hearing that General Washington was endeavouring to procure in Europe jackasses of the best breed, ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Walter Malins Rose, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1901)
"the jury, whether the taking in the jackasses The declaration was for a total loss by the increased the risk. This court has so decided perils of the sea. ..."

4. A Narrative of Excursions, Voyages, and Travels, Performed at Different by George Rapelje (1834)
"I suppose all together in the caravan, with jackasses, mules, horses, and men running on foot, there must have been at least five hundred. ..."

5. A Colonial Tramp: Travels and Adventures in Australia and New Guinea by Hume Nisbet (1891)
"... CHAPTER XXI THE BUSH Monotony of the Bush—Tarragon—Size of Trees —A Young Man's Ideal—Laughing jackasses—A Bush Church—The Bullock Driver ..."

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