What is a donkey hoti??

Answer 1

Don Quixote de la Mancha is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. The original story was said to have been written in Arabic by a historian named Cide Hamete Benengeli, with Cervantes serving as a "translator" after the story is found in Toledo, Spain's old Jewish quarter.

It regularly appears at or near the top of compendia listing the greatest works of fiction ever published and is the most important work of literature to emerge from Spain's siglo de oro. Published in two volumes a decade apart, Don Quixote is widely acclaimed, not only as the most influential and emblematic work in the canon of Spanish literature, but more generally a founding work of modern Western literature.

Answer 2

As already noted, donkey hoti = Don Quixote a character from the book by Cervantes.

The Don was a well-meaning Spanish nobleman with a, shall we say, limited grip on reality. He and his man Sancho Panza went on a quest to do good deeds which ended up having him, among other things, attacking (what he thought to be) monsters threatening a town which turned out to be windmills (this is where we get the phrase, 'tilting at windmills', from) and being the champion of (he thought) a great lady who was actually a woman of commercial virtue.

Thus saying someone is a Don Quixote means they are engaged in a well meaning and possibly courageous but ultimately foolish endeavor.

Answer 3

You must be a member of my family. My nephew came home with those words last semester. We were all scratching our heads trying to figure out what it meant.

Finally, he said "donkey hoti had a friend, Sancho". Aha!

Answer 4

Konnie gave a very good answer. And, in case you have no history in spanish, Don Quixote would be pronounced "Don, Key Hoe Tay" with a pause after Don, and stress on the "hoe." Many people mispronounce the name as "Don Key Hoe Tee" which explains your misunderstanding.

Quixote is such an important character, we have a word in English that originates from his name:

adj. Quixotic -- having a romanticized view of life; impulsive
adv. Quixotically, n. Quixotism