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Brewer's: Assinego
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: Troilus and Cressida, ii. 1.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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