Donald

plural Donalds

1. countableuncountableA male given name from Scottish Gaelic.

   Donald Duk never liked his name. He hates his name. He is not a duck. He is not a cartoon character. - - - "Only the Chinese are stupid enough to give a kid a stupid name like Donald Duk," Donald Duk says to himself.

   1991, Frank Chin, Donald Duk, Coffee House Press, published 1991, →ISBN, page 1

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   "Country?" replied Cuddie; "ou, the country's weel eneugh, and it werena that dour deevil, Calver'se, ( they ca' him Dundee now) that's stirring about yet in the Highlands, they say, with a' the Donalds, and Duncans, and Dugalds, that ever wore bottomless breeks, driving about wi' him, to set things asteer again, - - -

   1816, Walter Scott, Old Mortality, Samuel H. Parker, published 1836, page 232

   My friends call me Terry. My husband always used my full name, Teresa. He said it made him feel like he was married to a foreign woman. And I never called him Don or Donny or Donny Joe. I called him Donald from the first time we met.

   1980, Laura Furman, The Glass House, a Novella and Stories, Viking Press, published 1980, →ISBN, page 76

   The death of anti-feminist activist Phyllis Schlafly on Monday brought commiserations from the GOP ticket. Donald Trump tweeted that she was “truly great.” Mike Pence called her “the First Lady of the Conservative Movement.” Pence wasn’t exaggerating.

   2016 September 6, Timothy Stanley, “How Phyllis Schlafly gave us Sarah Palin”, in CNN, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2021

   The White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, has cooperated extensively in the special counsel investigation, sharing detailed accounts about the episodes at the heart of the inquiry into whether President Trump obstructed justice, […]

   2018 August 18, Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman, “White House Counsel, Don McGahn, Has Cooperated Extensively in Mueller Inquiry”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2021

2. countableuncountableA surname.
3. A place name:
   1. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Long County, Georgia, United States.
   2. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in the town of Pershing, Taylor County, Wisconsin, United States.
   3. countableuncountableA community regarded as a ghost town west of Golden, British Columbia, Canada.
   4. countableuncountableA town in the Shire of Buloke, western Victoria, Australia.

plural Donalds

1. CockneyabbreviationslangAbbreviation of Donald Trump (“a dump, an act of defecation”).

   ‘But I'm overdue for a Donald. You lot squabble amongst yourselves.’ He stole Catherine's newspaper on the way out.

   2018, Mick Herron, London Rules, Baskerville 2022, p. 119