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 Assien’to Treaties. [Spanish, agreement treaties.]Assumption (Feast of the). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Ass’ine’go.
 
A young ass, a simpleton (a Portuguese word).   1
        “Thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows; an assinego may tutor thee.”—Shakespeare: Trollus and Cressida, ii. 1.
 


 Assien’to Treaties. [Spanish, agreement treaties.]Assumption (Feast of the). 

 
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