Donkovica was a widowed woman of Donko merchant and electrical mill owner in Kumanovo, today Macedonia. After her hosbend's death she was often mocked just for the fun of it by the citizens of Kumanovo. One of the ways that the citizen of Kumanovo were mocking her is whenever some people came to look for work in the city and started to ask around in the Charshija people wold immediately send them to her house and specifically tell them to ask her: <big>We heard from some people from Charchija that you had a very big field that needs mowing</big>. She understood the joke right away and told them: <big>Go back to the people that send you here and go to their wives, their wives have large fields that need to be mowed</big>.
Also there was the saying: <big>Go to Donkovica she will except all of you'</big>'. This was tоlled usually to people that would complane that they don't have money.
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