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Assʹineʹgo

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A young ass, a simpleton (a Portuguese word).

“Thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows; an assinego may tutor thee.”—Shakespeare: Trollus and Cressida, ii. 1.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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