Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
donkey kong
English answer:
Nintendo platform game
Added to glossary by
Özden Arıkan
Dec 1, 2004 13:24
19 yrs ago
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English term
Russian Federation
15 Jahre in Übersetzung
Native in: Russian 
Works in: English to Russian, Russian to English, German to Russian
donkey kong
English
Other
Slang
You'll be ROTFL, but it's Crumpler again :)
The full context is as follows: "My mama always said quit horsin around . . . so I did. I stopped ridin bareback, settled down and got me a donkey. She ain’t no wise ass, neither, she’s good donkey style or I’m hung like a penguin. Shhh, don’t mention donkey kong or she’ll start swingin her ass ass over beer barrels and I’ll never get her home"
I could've made some wild guesses judging from the context, but I'd rather wait for someone who knows...
The full context is as follows: "My mama always said quit horsin around . . . so I did. I stopped ridin bareback, settled down and got me a donkey. She ain’t no wise ass, neither, she’s good donkey style or I’m hung like a penguin. Shhh, don’t mention donkey kong or she’ll start swingin her ass ass over beer barrels and I’ll never get her home"
I could've made some wild guesses judging from the context, but I'd rather wait for someone who knows...
Responses
| 5 +12 | NIntendo platform game |
Terence Ajbro
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| 4 +6 | a donkey's sexual member |
Kim Metzger
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| 3 | Below |
Kevin Kelly
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+12
1 min
Terence Ajbro
Sweden
Sweden
Native in English
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English
Sweden
A multilingual Englishman
Native in: English
Works in: English to German, English to Danish, Danish to English, and 7 more.
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NIntendo platform game
This is an old video game for Nintendo 64 with a big gorilla.
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Note added at 2 mins (2004-12-01 13:26:44 GMT)
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PS in the game you get to jump over obstacles such as barrels.
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Note added at 2 mins (2004-12-01 13:26:44 GMT)
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PS in the game you get to jump over obstacles such as barrels.
Peer comment(s):
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Mihailolja
2 mins
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thanks
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Kevin Kelly
4 mins
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thanks
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Lillian van den Broeck
6 mins
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thanks
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Aisha Maniar
11 mins
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Katherine Hodkinson
14 mins
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Charlie Bavington
: this is certainly the primary reference. Whether a sexual reference is intended too is open to debate - depends how your mind works, I guess :-) !!
46 mins
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| agree |
Kaori Myatt
: Yes, that's it.
2 hrs
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Refugio
: This is half the answer, the other half is given by Kim
2 hrs
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| agree |
ben baudoin
3 hrs
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| agree |
Tony M
: This was my first thought, too; the allusion to 'dong' is probably also deliberate, but not, I'd have thought, the primary intention
9 hrs
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| agree |
Judith Kerman
: this one, and Kim's, too
12 hrs
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| agree |
Jörgen Slet
13 hrs
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Lisa Frideborg Eddy (X)
21 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Graded automatically based on peer agreement."
+6
8 mins
Kim Metzger
Mexico
Mexico
Native in English
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English
Mexico
Committed to Quality and Service
Native in: English (Variant: US) 
Works in: German to English
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40
a donkey's sexual member
I think "kong" is a play on "King Kong", the giant gorilla, and in this case "kong" is a giant penis. His donkey is a jenny, a female donkey.
"I’m hung like a penguin" - very small genitals.
"don’t mention donkey kong" - his jenny gets excited when she thinks a male donkey is around
"I’m hung like a penguin" - very small genitals.
"don’t mention donkey kong" - his jenny gets excited when she thinks a male donkey is around
Peer comment(s):
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Mikhail Kropotov
: dese dudes are cool like dat
2 mins
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Play on "dong"?
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Terence Ajbro
: There is of course the possibility that he is referring to both!
5 mins
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Never heard of the video game, I must admit, but somehow I think he's not talking about a video game here.
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Mathew Robinson
: The whole text is full of sexual connotations. // King Dong (porn star) -> King Kong -> Donkey Kong -> Donkey -> Horse = its all plays on words without saying the naughty ones and keeps with the original theme of "quit horsing around"
11 mins
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"ridin bareback", "swingin her ass",
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Charlie Bavington
: dong, schlong I've heard, but never kong, w.r.t. a penis. For those that *have* heard of/played the video game (i.e. with the cultural background the text requires), it's the first thing you think of :-) // Altho TechTrans makes valid points too.
37 mins
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Isn't he making the same points I made?
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Refugio
: agree, the allusion is to the game in the context you give
2 hrs
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I'm glad I wasn't just imagining things.
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KathyT
9 hrs
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Judith Kerman
: this one and Terence's, too
12 hrs
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Lisa Frideborg Eddy (X)
21 hrs
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12 mins
Kevin Kelly
Native in English
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English
Impeccable quality, on-time delivery.
Native in: English
Works in: Russian to English, English to Russian, English
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4
Below
There's an interesting story about how that name came about. Supposedly the Japanese developers wanted to use the idea of "King Kong" but since that name was taken, they come up with something like "Monkey Kong" which was screwed up in transcription and became "Donkey Kong." Don't know if it's true, but it's a good story.
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