assback

English

Etymology

ass +‎ back

Noun

assback (plural assbacks)

  1. The back of a donkey.
    • 1691, uncredited translators, Plutarch’s Morals, Part 2, London: T. Sawbridge et al., p. 224,
      […] they took her and set her on Ass-back, and led her round about the City,
    • 1766, Tobias Smollett, Travels Through France and Italy‎, London: R. Baldwin, Volume 1, Letter 5, p. 74:
      The way of riding most used in this place is on assback.
    • 1846, Richard Ford, chapter 7, in Gatherings from Spain,‎, London: John Murray, page 74:
      Riding on assback was accounted a disgrace and a degradation to the Gothic hidalgo,
    • 1994, Robert Kelly, “In Irish America” in Queen of Terrors, Kingston, NY: McPherson, p. 56,
      […] tune soft as the assback my Savior rode from Jericho to Caerleon.

Adverb

assback (not comparable)

  1. On the back of a donkey.
    • 1850, George Walker, “A Game of Chess with Napoleon”, in Chess and Chess-Players‎, London: Charles J. Skeet, page 260:
      […] I should have thought a great chief had something better to do than to play chess either horseback or assback.
    • 1970, Mark Perlberg, “Hiroshige”, in The Burning Field,‎, New York: William Morrow, page 7:
      That samurai is surely fast alive
      In his hunched and silhouetted dozing, assback,
      In the blur of fog,
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