Zeedonk

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Forms and variants 1.2.2 Synonyms 1.2.3 Quotations

English

Etymology

Blend of zebra and donkey

Noun

Zeedonk (plural Zeedonks)

1. A cross between a zebra and a donkey.

Forms and variants

• zedonk

Synonyms

• deebra
• zebadonk
• zebrass
• zebronkey
• zenkey
• zonkey

Quotations

• 1997, Thomas Fensch, Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss [1]

  One might have imagined that it could only have been Dr. Seuss who had thought up and named the zedonk—the animal produced when a male zebra mates with a female donkey!

• 2003, Colin Bell, GCSE Applied Science Student Book [2]

  Suggest which animals are the parents of the cross breeds, zedonk and tiglion.

• 2004, Kevin O'Hara, Last of the Donkey Pilgrims [3]

  I could have told him about zedonks and zebrasses; donkey cures for whooping cough and gout, how an onager is a wild ass from Central Asia; that the Australian kookaburra is nicknamed “the laughing donkey”; [...]