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US
/ˈhɪni/
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[ UK /hˈɪni/ ]
[ UK /hˈɪni/ ]
NOUN
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hybrid offspring of a male horse and a female donkey or ass; usually sterile
a hinny has a gentler disposition than a mule
How To Use hinny In A Sentence
- There's kames o 'hinny 'tween my luve's lips."] [Footnote 244: _Wawae-noho_. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula
- The sun set about ten o'clock, and Lady Clare and Shag greeted its last departing rays with a whinny, accompanied by a wanton kickup from the rear -- for whatever Boyhood in Norway
- It will either help my chesty cough or make me whinny and jump fences.
- The second that we were on my father's land Sora gave a whinny of joy as she pranced this way and that.
- At the end of the last chorus - the last chorus, the band does something; the saxophonists do a fast kind of whinny trill. 100 Years Of Jazz Clarinetist Artie Shaw
- That spooked the horse because his head and ears picked up and he let out a shrill whinny.
- Mention "chinny" to Roach and he grins and shakes his head, bemused but also dismissive. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- Named for the proteins on its surface, it's known as H1N1 also called "hinny" by morons who think that's a word. Archive 2009-09-01
- But, of all the alleged verities, putting faith in a trainer's predictions for a chinny fighter whom bookies rate a 9-2 underdog against a 1-8 counter-punching genius is as perilous a challenge to logic and the fates as exists in sport. Floyd Mayweather Jr v Victor Ortiz - as it happened | Steve Busfield
- Aunt Patty said she should be lost without her "hinny," and George Wild remonstrated half angrily with her, for going off to leave him alone; but all to no effect -- Annie must go. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems