Meaning of assback | Babel Free

Definitions

The back of a donkey.

Examples

“1691, uncredited translators, Plutarch’s Morals, Part 2, London: T. Sawbridge et al., p. 224, […] they took her and set her on Ass-back, and led her round about the City,”

“The way of riding most used in this place is on assback.”

“Riding on assback was accounted a disgrace and a degradation to the Gothic hidalgo,”

“1994, Robert Kelly, “In Irish America” in Queen of Terrors, Kingston, NY: McPherson, p. 56, […] tune soft as the assback my Savior rode from Jericho to Caerleon.”

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