jackarse
jackarse is the misspelling of jackass.
Meaning of jackass
Noun (1)
jackass (countable and uncountable, plural jackasses)
- A male donkey.
- A foolish or stupid person.
- Synonyms:
- jackaninny, idiot, addle-brain, addlehead, addle pate, airhead, baboon, beanbrain, beetlebrain, beetlehead
- An inappropriately rude or obnoxious person.
- Bobby, only jackasses go around saying how much money they make.2004 King of the Hill (TV, season 8.8)
- A kind of bootleg liquor.
- As the vintner Louis Foppiano recalled years later, Sonoma County during Prohibition became a center for bootlegging, not of wine, but of spirits. 'There were some big stills hidden up in the hills of Sonoma, some producing five hundred gallons of Jackass [spirits made from spring water and sugar]...Richard Mendelson, From Demon to Darling: A Legal History of Wine in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, p. 82)
- The laughing kookaburra.
Noun (2)
jackass (plural jackasses)
- A jack and an ace as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
Forms of jackarse
| plural | jackarses |
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Origin of jackarse
Blend of jackass and arse. Apparently the result of a false etymology equating -ass in the sense of "donkey" with North American English ass (in the sense of "buttocks", "anus") and also, therefore, arse.
Questions about jackarse
- What is jackarse the misspelling of?
- Jackarse is the misspelling of jackass.
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