donkey quotes

[odrisk1]

This is for a Shakespeare Essay- where does the phrase "hung like a donkey" come from?

[lafrancaise]

A Midsummer Night's Dream

[Quizmonster]

The word 'donkey' does not appear anywhere in Shakespeare's plays. The three-letter equivalent ,which opens with an 'a' and ends in an 's' with another 's' between them, appears 88 times, about half a dozen of those in A Midsummer Night's Dream. None of these is connected to the word 'hung'.

If you type "Shakespeare Concordance" into the Google slot, you will find lots of sites which list the 88 instances I mentioned. You can check the rest for yourself!

'Well-hung' referring to large male genitalia goes back quite a long way, but the donkey connection is, I suspect, much more modern.

(If you're wondering why I used the elaborate spelling-thing above, it is because I'm pretty sure the censor-robot here won't let me write the actual word itself.)