Hinny

Definition: Hinny

Hinny

Noun

1. Sterile offspring of a male horse and a female donkey or ass.

Synonyms within Context: Hinny

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Carrier	Ass, donkey, jackass, mule, hinny; sumpter horse, sumpter mule; burro, cuddy, ladino; reindeer; camel, dromedary, llama, elephant; carrier pigeon.
Unconformity	Nonconformist; nondescript, character, original, nonesuch, nonsuch, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae, rara avis, queer fish; mongrel, random breed; half-caste, half-blood, half-breed; metis, crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto; tertium quid, hermaphrodite.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Specialty Definition: Hinny

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A hinny is the offspring of a male horse and a female donkey (jennet or jenny). They are rarer than mules, which are the children of a male donkey (jackass or jack) and a female horse. Like the mule, the hinny is almost always sterile. The head of a hinny looks more similar to that of a horse than does the head of a mule. Hinnies are on average slightly smaller than mules. Otherwise, there is little difference between them.

Hinnies are difficult to obtain because of the differences in the number of chromosomes of the horse and the donkey. Sterility in the mule comes from the same reason. A mare mule, called a "molly," has estrus cycles and can carry a fetus, as has occasionally happened naturally but also through embryo transfer. The difficulty is in getting the molly pregnant in the first place. Nature prefers the chromosome match-up to occur when the jack is the sire and the mare is the dam. It has been known for people to let a stallion run with a jenny for as long as six years before getting her pregnant.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hinny."

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Crosswords: Hinny

English words defined with "hinny": Fummel ♦ Hinniate, Hinnies. (references)

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Modern Usage: Hinny

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Now haul your hero hinny out of here. (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio)
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Commercial Usage: Hinny

Domain	Title
Books	Hinny Winny Bunco (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Hinny

"Hinny" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hinny" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	4	175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hinny

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
hinny	23
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Modern Translations: Hinny

Language		Translations for "hinny"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		цвиля (neigh, nicker), муле (jennet, mule). (various references)

Danish		mulaesel. (various references)

Dutch		muilezel. (various references)

Esperanto		hino, azenĉevalo. (various references)

Farsi		شیهه کشیدن , شیهه اسب (Neigh), شیهه . (various references)

Finnish		muuliaasitamma (female hinny). (various references)

French		bardot. (various references)

Frisian		mûlezel. (various references)

German		maulesel (mule). (various references)

Greek		γίννος. (various references)

Italian		bardotto. (various references)

Korean		버새 (Hinnies). (various references)

Manx		cabbyl assylagh. (various references)

Norwegian		mulesel. (various references)

Pig Latin		innyhay

Portuguese		mulinho, mula pequena. (various references)

Russian		лошак. (various references)

Spanish		burdégano. (various references)

Swedish		mulåsna (mule, mules). (various references)

Thai		ล่อ (เกิ�"จากม้าตัวผู้ผสมกับลาตัวเมีย). (various references)

Turkish		katır (mule, stubborn person), bardo. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Hinny

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	burdo, burdonum, hinuli, hinulo, hinuloque, hinulus. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Hinny

Derivations
	Words beginning with "hinny": hinnying. (additional references)
	Words ending with "hinny": shinny, whinny. (additional references)
	Words containing "hinny": shinnying, whinnying. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Hinny" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chinny, hann, hany, henny, heny, hindy, Hiney, hinie, hinin, hinky, hinn, hinney, Hinni, hinty, hiny, hoiny, honny, hunnic, hunny. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Hinny"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "hinny" (pronounced hi"nē)
3	-i" n ē	Ginny, Guinea, mini, Minny, skinny, spinney, Swinney, tinny.
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Anagrams: Hinny

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "h-i-n-n-y"
	-2 letters: hin, inn, yin.
	-3 letters: hi, in.
	Words containing the letters "h-i-n-n-y"
	+1 letter: shinny, whinny.
	+2 letters: hyenine, hymning, ninthly, shinney.
	+3 letters: anything, hinnying, honeying, lynching, lynchpin, ninnyish, phonying, shinnery, shinneys, sunshiny, synching.
	+4 letters: antiphony, anythings, donnishly, hoydening, hyphening, inharmony, inhumanly, lynchings, lynchpins, mannishly, ninhydrin, phenytoin, phoneying, shinneyed, shinnying, syphoning, unhandily, whiningly, whinnying.
	+5 letters: clannishly, hackneying, hauntingly, hemocyanin, inherently, inhumanely, inhumanity, ninhydrins, phenytoins, phrensying, pinchpenny, shinneying, strychnine, synchronic, thinkingly, unhygienic, youthening.
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