laughing jackass

He is not confined, but loafs all over the house and grounds, like the laughing jackass.

The kookaburra is also called the "laughing jackass."

It would have depressed a laughing jackass and made it coo like a mourning dove.

Cinty and the laughing jackasses and other children's stories (1961)

To what extent civilization is retarded by the laughing jackasses, the empty-minded belittlers?

Vernacular name: The species was previously known as the Laughing Jackass and Giant Kingfisher.

In the Zoological Gardens of Adelaide I saw the only laughing jackass that ever showed any disposition to be courteous to me.

The naturalist said that the oddest bird in Australasia was the, Laughing Jackass, and the biggest the now extinct Great Moa.

They had to dispense with fire, and consequently with food too, and sleep in their wet clothes, while the laughing jackasses, concealed in the high branches, seemed to ridicule the poor unfortunates.