hinny

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The question, with the gaucy and generous gudewife of Mount Pleasant, was not--"My dear laddie, which will ye hae--hinny or jam?"

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  1. noun The hybrid offspring of a male horse and a female donkey.

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  1. Alteration of Latin hinnus, from Greek ginnos, innos.

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  1. With diminutive term, -y, from Latin hinnus, feminine hinna, a mule from a stallion and a she-ass, distinguished from ginnus, from Greek γίννος, sometimes written γῖννος, γῖνος, and later ἵννος (without rough breathing, but apparently due to the L. hinnus), a stunted mule, from a mare and an ass.
  2. apparently an alteration of whinny, q. v., in simulation of the different but like imitative word L. hinnire (present indicative hinnio), neigh; cf. Hindustani hinhinana, hīnna, hīnsna, bray, neigh, whine.
 

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/ˈhɪni/
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