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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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
He also interviewed the notorious mid-2000s internet jackass Tucker Max, whom Carlson inaccurately described as being a “beautiful prose stylist.”
From Slate • May 17, 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
I needed them to leave so I wouldn't have to keep smiling and nodding like a jackass, which I knew I was going to have to do—but for how long?
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
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