hinny
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- noun
- /ˈhɪni/
- And they'll blast your arse out, hinny.
Examples
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By hinny, you're a hard one.
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Get your little hinny over here or no midnight snack.
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- That may be, hinny.
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I am offended they keep wiping their hinnies with our First Amendment.
Blog text (19) -
"What's hinny, Abba?" Noah popped into the tiny back room Barak used as an office, and found him still smiling.
Fiction book (1993) -
I dreamed of an enchanted hinny who saved his Gypsy master from the poison set for him and helped him slay the evil monster that controlled the kingdom by fear.
Fiction book (1997) -
Hinnies high, elbows to the floor—rub-a-dub-dub, scrub, ready for whatever comes your way.
Blog text (12) -
A hinny is a hybrid animal resulting from the mating of a male horse and a female donkey.
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Many people are surprised to learn that a hinny is different from a mule, which comes from a different crossbreeding.
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Farmers sometimes raise a hinny, but they are less common than mules due to their unique parentage.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hinny may come from a northern pet name like 'honey', so a helpful way to remember it is to think of a dear little animal. A hinny is the child of a male horse and a female donkey (a jenny), so the name now means this gentle hybrid animal.