jackass
Americannoun
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a male donkey
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a stupid person; fool
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another name for kookaburra
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Origin of jackass
Example Sentences
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As the politician Sam Rayburn famously said: “Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2024
"Any jackass can kick over a lantern and burn down a bar. It takes a carpenter to build one - we want to be on the side of the carpenter," Roemer told Reuters.
From Reuters • Nov. 9, 2022
Mr. Fieri proceeded to make something he calls the jackass roll — rice, pork butt, fries and avocado — so named, he said, because a friend told him he looked like a jackass preparing it.
From New York Times • May 23, 2022
“We are the carpenters of American politics because, you know, any jackass can kick over a barn. It takes a carpenter to build one.”
From Washington Times • Dec. 30, 2021
“It’ll be Daniel in the Lion’s den, or David and the Giant, or when Samson took that jackass bone and killed all those people. It’ll be one of those three. It always is.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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