hinny

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English[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

  • enPR: hĭn'ē, IPA(key): /ˈhɪ.ni/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪni

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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.
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Etymology 2[edit]

Alteration of whinny, which is onomatopoeic.

Verb[edit]

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

  1. To whinny

Etymology 3[edit]

From standard English honey.

Noun[edit]

hinny (plural hinnies)

  1. (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.'
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References[edit]

  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
  • Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
  • Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
  • Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]