Definitions for hinny

hinny hin·ny

Spelling: [hin-ee]
IPA: /ˈhɪn i/

Hinny is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in hinny (hinny).

Definitions for hinny

noun

  1. the offspring of a male horse and a female donkey. Compare mule1 (defs 1, 2).

Origin of hinny

1680-90; obsolete hinne (Latin hinnus; akin to Greek gínnos mule) + -y2

Examples for hinny

And oh, hinny, but your mother had been a weel-faured woman in her day!

But ye're just like a' the women, hinny—their outcry is aye about expense and danger.

A very curious circumstance pertains to the voice of the mule and the hinny.

The hinny, on the other hand, the produce of the stallion and she ass, is essentially a modified horse.

The hinny of Jeanette echoed wildly from the cliffs, and was answered by the bark and howl of the prairie-wolf.

And who tould the like of ye, how to make a brum like that, hinny?

The body and barrel, however, of the hinny are flat and narrow, in which it differs from the horse and resembles the she ass.

The difference between the mule and the hinny would seem to be explicable on this supposition.

Beggars dinna work, hinny, said he—but do not be in a passion.

The Mule and the hinny, are the off-spring of the ass and the horse and combine to some extent the qualities of both.

Word Value for hinny
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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