talk the hind leg off a donkey
"talk-the-hind-leg-off-a-donkey" is a 24-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“talk the hind leg off a donkey” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 30
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To talk a lot.
Corpus desk
Index EN-talk-the-hind-leg-off-a- · talk the hind leg off a donkey · English
talk the hind leg off a donkey · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 30 letters
- VOW-9 9 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | talk the hind leg off a donkey |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 30 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “talk the hind leg off a donkey” in English
Rare enough to double-check
talk the hind leg off a donkey is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To talk a lot.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for talk the hind leg off a donkey, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is talk the hind leg off a donkey, spelled T-A-L-K- -T-H-E- -H-I-N-D- -L-E-G- -O-F-F- -A- -D-O-N-K-E-Y.
Definition
- 1To talk a lot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how talk the hind leg off a donkey appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonyms: talk someone's head off, talk someone's arm off, talk someone's leg off, talk the ears off someone, talk someone under the table
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.