hinny

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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).

Translations

hybrid offspring of a male horse and a female donkey

• Arabic: نغل
• Bulgarian: катър (bg) m (katǎr)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: mezek (cs) m
• Danish: muldyr n, mulæsel n
• Dutch: muilezel (nl) m
• Esperanto: azenĉevalo
• Finnish: muuliaasi (fi)
• French: bardot (fr) m, bardeau (fr) m
• German: Maulesel (de) m
• Hungarian: szamáröszvér (hu)
• Italian: bardotto (it) m
• Japanese: ケッテイ (ja) (kettei), 駃騠 (けってい, kettei)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kalmyk: лус (lus)
• Korean: 비새 (bisae)
• Latin: hinnus m
• Latvian: zirgēzelis m, zirgēzeļa f
• Macedonian: мазга f (mazga)
• Portuguese: bardoto m
• Romanian: bardou (ro) m
• Russian: лоша́к (ru) m (lošák)
• Slovene: mezeg (sl) m
• Spanish: burdégano m
• Ukrainian: лоша́к m (lošák), ослю́к m (osljúk)
• Vietnamese: con la, bạch đôi (vi)
• Volapük: hinud (vo)
• 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)

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.'

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.