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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--donkey's years This week's theme: Whose what? (animal edition) donkey's years (DONG-keez yeerz) noun A very long time. [Probably from the punning reference to a donkey's long ears.] Here's a BBC story about a 60-year-old donkey Lively Laddie who died a couple of years ago. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Roshni: Do you believe in the institution of marriage? Aman: Of course. I strongly believe in the same. I come from a background where everyone's been married for donkey's years." Roshni K. Olivera; Aman Verma Naughty But Nice; The Times of India (New Delhi); Jul 25, 2007; X-Bonus Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

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