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/dʒˈækˌæs/ Listen

noun

Jackass n.

The male ass; a donkey.

A conceited dolt; a perverse blockhead; disparaging and offensive.

Jackass bark (Naut.), a three-masted vessel, with only the foremast square-rigged; a barkentine.

Jackass deer (Zool.), the koba.

Jackass hare, Jackass rabbit (Zool.). See Jack rabbit, under 2d Jack, n.

Jackass penguin (Zool.), any species of penguin of the genus Spheniscus, of which several are known. One species (Spheniscus demersus) inhabits the islands near the Cape of Good Hope; another (Spheniscus Magellanicus) is found at the Falkland Islands. They make a noise like the braying of an ass; hence the name.

Laughing jackass. (Zool.) See under Laughing.

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"Jackass" Quotes from Famous Books

... you'd buy that timber for an investment if I offered it cheap enough," Donald explained. "Besides, I owed you a poke. You wanted to be certain you hadn't reared a jackass instead of a man, so you gave me a hundred thousand dollars and stood by to see what I'd do with it—didn't you, old Scotty?" Hector nodded a trifle guiltily. "Andrew Daney wrote me you swore by all your Highland clan that the man who ...

— Kindred of the Dust • Peter B. Kyne

... "I think so. And I remember, as I was walking along the road some days past, I saw a little naughty boy that used a poor jackass very ill indeed. The poor animal was so lame that he could hardly stir; and yet the boy beat him with a great stick as violently as he was able, to make him go on faster." "And what did you say to him?" said Mr Barlow. Harry.—Why, sir, ...

— The History of Sandford and Merton • Thomas Day

... thinking it's soon you'll be getting married. Listen to what I'm telling you: a man who is not married is no better than an old jackass. He goes into his sister's house, and into his brother's house; he eats a bit in this place and a bit in another place, but he has no home for himself like an old jackass straying ...

— The Aran Islands • John M. Synge

... with was a poor jackass feeding very quietly in a ditch. The little boy, seeing that nobody was within sight, thought this was an opportunity of plaguing an animal that was not to be lost, so he went and cut a large branch ...

— Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) - Classic Tales And Old-Fashioned Stories • Various

... drinkin' at de brook, Surveys hisself wid offish look, An' 'low: "You Jackass makes too free! Huccome you dast to drink wid me!" An' he ain't by 'isself in dat, in dat— Oh, he ain't by 'isself ...

— Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles • Ruth McEnery Stuart

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