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Donner

name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The seventh reindeer of Santa Claus.
Noun
  1. 1
    One who dons (something).

    "O sweet little wearers of round hats. O dainty donners of Mauve silks and sprigged muslins—I hear a voice saying—there was a time when all the ladies of Rome, with perfumes and fans, went daily to the Colosseum to see gigantic slaves chop each other to pieces; […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    To beat up; clobber; thrash. South-Africa, slang

    "Ag pleez Deddy won't you take us to the wrestling / We wanna see an ou called Sky High Lee / When he fights Willie Liebenberg / There's gonna be a murder / 'Cos Willie's gonna donner that blerrie yankee"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Afrikaans donder (“thrash”), from Dutch donder (“thunder”). Doublet of thunder.

Etymology 2

From don + -er.

Etymology 3

First attested in the 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”. Named from Dutch donder (“thunder”), and perhaps influenced by the German form Donner.

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