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Definition: Jackass |
JackassNoun1. A man who is a stupid fool. 2. Male donkey. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "jackass" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Jackass is also another word for donkey.Jackass is a TV show, originally shown on MTV in which a group of men do various silly and/or dangerous stunts for fun. It has become amazingly popular and has even resulted in a full-length movie (essentially the same as the TV show, but for much longer and with less censoring).
The known members of the Jackass team are:
Some of the sketches featured on the show are:
- Johnny Knoxville, the nominal presenter of Jackass.
- Steve-O
- Chris Pontius
- Raab Himself
- Preston Lacy - more often than not chasing Wee Man in the 'big fat bloke chasing the midget' funny sketches.
- Jason Acuña, a.k.a Wee Man - more often than not being chased by Preston Lacy, as above.
- Ryan Dunn
- Dave England
- Bam Marghera
- Ehren McGhehey
- Phil and April Marghera - Bam's parents and, more often than not, stunt victims.
These may not be the proper names, and some of them may need fleshing out a bit - please feel free to edit them.
In summer 2003, Johnny Knoxville left the show. The other cast members reportedly are to have a own show. (?)
- The Plunger Wakeup (Bam Marghera, Phil Marghera) - This is where Bam silently goes into the room where Phil is sleeping, carefully places a stereo on Phil's bed, turns it on at full blast then when Phil wakes up startled bangs on a pot and uses a plunger on his face.
- The Gettysburg Address (Johnny Knoxville) - This was where Johnny wore an Abraham Lincoln style suit and top hat and had Leeches attached to his face to make the 'beard' that Lincoln had, while giving the Gettysburg address.
Jackass has been blamed for a number of deaths and injuries involving teens and children imitating the stunts. In 2001, Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut asked MTV to pull the show of the air entirely, or tone down its content after several incidents.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Jackass."
Synonyms: JackassSynonyms: bozo (n), cuckoo (n), fathead (n), goof (n), goose (n), jack (n), twat (n), zany (n). (additional references) |
| 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. |
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Crosswords: Jackass |
| English words defined with "jackass": genus Spheniscus ♦ Spheniscus. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "jackass": Aliboron ♦ life. (references) |
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Screenplays | Your story is very compelling, Mr. Jackass, um, Simpson (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) I have social skills, jackass! (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette) I'm a man jackass! (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) I'm Johnny Knoxville and welcome to Jackass! (Jackass; writing credit: Donald Spoto; Eric Overmyer) I just did call you a jackass. (Ocean's Eleven; writing credit: George Clayton Johnson; Jack Golden Russell) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Jackass Mail (1942) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Jackass ButteOwyhee Field OfficeLSRDLower Snake River District. Credit: Unknown. |  | Sage Grouse on strutting ground (lek) at Jackass Butte near Burns, Oregon. Credit: Mark Armstrong. |
 | The Famous jackass "New York City" preparing for another two years' journey. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Pathos of the jackass. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Man watchin tv" by Pontus Madsen Commentary: "Man watchin jackass on tv." |
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 | Blockhead; bonehead; dolt; donkey; dope; dunce; fool; halfwit; idiot; imbecile; jackass; jerk; nincompoop; nitwit; numskull; schmuck; simpleton; twerp; twit; ass; birdbrain; blockhead; bonehead; boob; bore; buffoon; butt; chump; clod; clown; cretin; dimwi. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Sam Rayburn | A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one. |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed. The question, "Is life worth living?" has been much discussed; particularly by those who think it is not, many of whom have written at great length in support of their view and by careful observance of the laws of health enjoyed for long terms of years the honors of successful controversy. "Life's not worth living, and that's the truth," Carelessly caroled the golden youth. In manhood still he maintained that view And held it more strongly the older he grew. When kicked by a jackass at eighty-three, "Go fetch me a surgeon at once!" cried he. Han Soper |
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Jack Hanna | The big penguins in the South Pole actually walk to the South Pole and back. They eat krill as well as fish. This is a jackass penguin, or a black-footed penguin. Again, called that because he brays like a donkey. |
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| "Jackass" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Jackass" is used about 7 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) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "jackass": Jackass bark ♦ jackass bat ♦ Jackass deer ♦ Jackass hare ♦ jackass penguin ♦ Jackass rabbit ♦ laughing jackass ♦ loughing jackass. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "jackass": son-of-a-jackass. | |
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| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
jackass | 5,822 | jackass photo | 38 |
jackass movie | 662 | jackass video clip | 36 |
jackass and mtv | 272 | mtvs jackass | 35 |
jackass picture | 255 | jackass t shirt | 34 |
jackass pic | 123 | jackass episode | 31 |
jackass wallpaper | 105 | belt buckle jackass | 29 |
jackass stunt | 101 | bam margera jackass | 28 |
jackass video | 94 | jackass screensaver | 28 |
steve o jackass | 93 | jackass quote | 27 |
jackass clip | 87 | jackass episode guide | 27 |
jackass soundtrack | 86 | jackass download | 26 |
buddy icon jackass | 79 | clip jackass movie | 26 |
jackass movie picture | 55 | jackass kenny rogers | 25 |
cast jackass | 52 | steve o from jackass | 25 |
jackass logo | 50 | music jackass | 24 |
jackass movie soundtrack | 46 | aim icon jackass | 22 |
icon jackass | 45 | jackass nude pic | 21 |
jackass merchandise | 44 | de descargar jackass video | 20 |
jackass and johnny knoxville | 41 | jackass movie pic | 20 |
jackass show | 39 | jackass dvd | 19 |
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| Language | Translations for "jackass"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | hajvan (animal, beast, donkey, dope, idiot, imp, jay, moron, mutt, noodle), gomar (ass, cuddy, donkey, imbecility, moke, mutton head, Neddy, owl, stupid person). (various references) | |
Arabic | حمار (ass, burro, donkey, loutish, stupid), المغفل (boob, booby, daw, dullard, dunce, dunderhead, dupe, featherbrain, gaby, gander, gawk, idiot, lout, lunkhead, moron, mug, mugful, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, noodle, numskull, simpleton, sucker, zany), الغبي (cloddish, duffer, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, moron). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | глупак (bird brained, blinker, boeotian, bonehead, boob, booby, calf, chuckle-head, clod, clot, coot, dodo, dotterel, driveler, dummy, fathead, flat, fool, gaby, gawk, goof, goon, gowk, greenhorn, gull, hammerhead, jobbernowl, lack-brain, lame brain, leather-head, lunkhead, muggins, mutt, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nutter, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap, sap-head, schmo, schnook, sheep's head, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, spoon, stupe, stupid, thickhead, tomfool, twit, witling, wittol, zany, zombie), магаре (ass, dicky, donkey, moke). (various references) | |
Chinese | 公驴. (various references) | |
Czech | pitomec (bonehead, chump, clown, dope, idiot, imbecile, ninny, nitwit, twit), osel (ass, donkey, dunce, fool), imbecil (imbecile), blbec (idiot, imbecile, jerk, nitwit). (various references) | |
Farsi | خرنر, الاغ نر. (various references) | |
French | crétin, baudet (Jack). (various references) | |
German | esel (ass, asses, burros, donkey, goat, jackasses, moke). (various references) | |
Greek | γάιδαροσ (ass, burro, donkey), βλάκασ (booby, chump, coot, dimwit, dolt, dope, duffer, gander, goof, goon, gudgeon, ignoramus, imbecile, lummox, moron, mutt, nincompoop, noodle, oaf, simp, simpleton, slob, stupid, sucker, tomfool, zany), χαϊβάνι, ζώο (animal, beast, brute, creature). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חמור (ass, austere, burro, critical, donkey, drastic, grave, moke, serious, severe, stern, strict, stringent). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szamár ember (nincompoop), hímszamár, hím szamár, bolond ember (bozo, coot, fool, nut, wacko, whacko). (various references) | |
Italian | asino (ass, donkey, moke). (various references) | |
Manx | assyl fyrryn (dicky). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ackassjay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | jumento (donkey, jack, neddy), pessoa tola, mula (hinny, mule), imbecil (addled, anile, ass, barmy, dull, dunderhead, fatuous, feather brain, featherbrained, foolish, goofy, gowk, half-witted, idiot, idiotic, loggerhead, moronic, nitwit, nitwitted, oaf, oafish, pumpkin-head, stupe, stupid, twerp, underwit, witless), burro (ass, donkey, dull, fool, idiot, ignoramus, moke, mule, neddy, silly, stupid), asno (ass, donkey). (various references) | |
Romanian | mãgar (ass, donkey, rascal). (various references) | |
Russian | болван (beetle-head, berk, blockhead, blunderhead, boob, booby, chuckle-head, chump, chunk, dolt, doodle, dope, dumbbell, dumbo, dumbo the flying elephant, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, fat-head, fool, goon, hardhead, jobbernowl, jolterhead, leather-head, loggerhead, loghead, log-head, lubber-head, lump, lunkhead, mutt, mutton head, mutton-head, nerd, numskull, pudding-head), дурак (berk, blunderhead, bonehead, bone-head, cuddy, dimwit, fool, goof, goose, half-wit, juggins, lack-brain, log-head, man of Gotham, moke, mutt, mutton-head, ninny, nitwit, nut, pin-head, pumpkin-head, sap-head, sheep's head, sheep's-head, silly, softy, tomfool, tomnoddy, wise man of Gotham, wooden head). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | magarac (ass, dicky, donkey, moke, neddy), budala (bullhead, cockeye, cuckoo, dolt, dumdum, fool, gaby, gawk, half wit, josser, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, sap, tomfool). (various references) | |
Spanish | burro (ass, burro, donkey, dunce, idiot, moke, sawbuck, sawhorse). (various references) | |
Swedish | åsnehingst (donkey stallion, he-ass, jack-ass). (various references) | |
Turkish | erkek eşek (Jack), eşek herif (ass, kookaburra), budala (barren, chucklehead, chumpish, clod, clownish, doltish, dreary, dullish, fool, juggins, noddy, noodle, prune, sappy, simple simon, soft, twit, zany), ahmak (addled, ass, blockhead, boob, bumpkin, cabbagehead, chucklehead, chumpish, clot, country bumpkin, crass, cretin, deadly dull, dimwitted, dolt, doltish, dreary, dullish, dumb bell, dunderhead, dunderheaded, fathead, fool, foolish, gander, gawk, gawky, goat, goof, goose, greenhorn, Gubbins, half wit, half-witted, hayseed, idiot, jerk, josser, kookaburra, light in the head, loon, lummox, lump, muggins, mutt, mutton head, noddy, numskull, prune, pudding-head, sap, saphead, sappy, schlepper, simp, soft, stupid, twerp). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | осел (ass, brayer, donkey, moke), дурень (ass, blunderhead, bone head, booby, bullhead, changeling, chump, clod, clot, dimwit, dolt, donkey, fool, fop, gander, imbecile, moke, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, omadhaun, owl, pinhead, pudding-head, softy, stupe, stupid, tomfool, you imbecile). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chàng ngốc (gaby, noddy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "jackass": jackasseries, jackassery, jackasses. (additional references) | |
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"Jackass" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Jacas, jacka, jackassery, jackens, jackmans, jakass, jakeass, jockass, Joskiss. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-j-k-s-s" | |
-2 letters: casas, casks, jacks, sacks. | |
-3 letters: asks, casa, cask, jack, kaas, sack, sacs, skas. | |
-4 letters: aas, ask, ass, kas, sac, ska. | |
-5 letters: aa, as, ka. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-j-k-s-s" | |
+2 letters: jackasses, jackstays, slapjacks. | |
+3 letters: jackassery, jackstraws. | |
+5 letters: jackanapeses, jackasseries. | |
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