hinny

• enPR: hĭn'ē, IPA^(key): /ˈhɪ.ni/

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• Rhymes: -ɪni

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

hinny (plural hinnies)

1. The hybrid offspring of a stallion (male horse) and a she-ass (female donkey).
   • 2001, Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea, "On the High Marsh":

     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.

• singing hinny

• mule

Alteration of whinny, which is onomatopoeic.

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

1. To whinny

From standard English honey.

hinny (plural hinnies)

1. (Tyneside) 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.'

• 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,