hinny

See also: Hinny

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: hĭn'ē, IPA^(key): /ˈhɪ.ni/

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• Rhymes: -ɪni

Etymology 1

From Latin hinnus – possibly cognate with hinnire (“to whinny”).

Noun

hinny (plural hinnies)

1. The hybrid offspring of a stallion (male horse) and a she-ass (female donkey).

   Synonym: (UK dialectal) fummel

   • 2001, Ursula K. Le Guin, “On the High Marsh”, in Tales from Earthsea:

     The curer said nothing to the cowboy but went straight to the mule, or hinny, rather, being out of San's big jenny by Alder's white horse.

Derived terms

• singing hinny

Translations

hybrid offspring of a male horse and a female donkey

• Arabic: بَغْل m (baḡl), بَغْلَة f (baḡla)

  Moroccan Arabic: بغل m (bḡal), بغلة f (baḡla)

• Asturian: burreñu (ast) m, burreña (ast) f, mulu (ast) m, mula (ast) f
• Bulgarian: катър (bg) m (katǎr)
• Catalan: mul somerí m
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵙⵔⴷⵓⵏ m (asrdun), ⵜⴰⵙⵔⴷⵓⵏⵜ f (tasrdunt)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 駃騠／𫘝𫘨 (zh) (juétí), 驢騾／驴骡 (zh) (lǘluó)

• Czech: mezek (cs) m
• Danish: muldyr n, mulæsel n
• Dutch: muilezel (nl) m
• Esperanto: azenĉevalo, hino (eo)
• Faroese: múlesil n
• Finnish: muuliaasi (fi)
• French: bardot (fr) m, bardeau (fr) m
• German: Maulesel (de) m
• Greek: γίννος m (gínnos)
• Hungarian: szamáröszvér (hu)
• Italian: bardotto (it) m
• Japanese: ケッテイ (ja) (kettei), 駃騠 (ja) (けってい, kettei)
• Kalmyk: лус (lus)
• Korean: 비새 (bisae)
• Latin: hinnus m
• Latvian: zirgēzelis m, zirgēzeļa f
• Macedonian: мазга f (mazga)
• Maltese: bagħal m, bagħla f
• Moroccan Amazigh: ⴰⵙⵔⴷⵓⵏ m (asrdun), ⵜⴰⵙⵔⴷⵓⵏⵜ f (tasrdunt)
• Polish: osłomuł (pl) m
• Portuguese: bardoto m
• Romanian: bardou (ro) m, catâr (ro) m
• Russian: лоша́к (ru) m (lošák)
• Slovene: mezeg (sl) m
• Spanish: burdégano m
• Tashelhit: ⴰⵙⵔⴷⵓⵏ m (asrdun), ⵜⴰⵙⵔⴷⵓⵏⵜ f (tasrdunt)
• Ukrainian: лоша́к m (lošák), ослю́к m (osljúk)
• Vietnamese: con la, bạch đôi (vi)
• Volapük: hinud (vo)
• Walloon: moulet (wa) m, moule (wa) f
• West Frisian: mûldier n

See also

• mule

Etymology 2

Alteration of whinny, which is onomatopoeic.

Verb

hinny (third-person singular simple present hinnies, present participle hinnying, simple past and past participle hinnied)

1. To whinny

Etymology 3

From standard English honey.

Noun

hinny (plural hinnies)

2. (Geordie) A term of endearment usually for women.
   • 2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 310:

     `You will make a great diagnostician, nae doot, my hinny, but you need tae improve your bedside manner.'

Derived terms

• singing hinny

 

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• Frank Graham, editor (1987), “HINNY”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin “hinny”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎^[1], archived from the original on 2024-09-05.