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A donkey with better PR — same animal, less insult, more Southwest.
means A small donkey, especially the kind used as a pack animal in the Southwest and Latin America.
from Spanish 'burro,' meaning donkey, likely traces back to the Late Latin 'burricus,' a term for a small pack horse or pony, itself possibly connected to 'burrus' meaning reddish-brown. The word rode into English alongside Spanish-speaking ranching and mining culture in the American West, which is why 'burro' still smells of desert trails rather than European farms.
- etymology
- Spanish for donkey, from late Latin burricus
- confusable with
- burrow, a hole, not a hoof
- us usage
- common in southwestern slang and place names
- stubborn reputation
- actually just cautious, not dumb