jackass
/ˈd͡ʒækæs/
jackass noun: a male donkey.
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)
- By now the wine counties were rife with the activity of the illegal wine trade and the force of the Prohibition Unit was hustling to keep up. At the start of the year, Officer William Navas had staged a raid on the dining room at Healdsburg's Hotel Sotoyome and discovered 'jackass' brandy […]Vivienne Sosnowski, When the Rivers Ran Red: An Amazing Story of Courage and Triumph in America's Wine Country (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, p. 110)
- The laughing kookaburra.
Verb
jackass (third-person singular simple present jackasses, present participle jackassing, simple past and past participle jackassed)
- To behave very obnoxiously.
Noun (2)
jackass (plural jackasses)
- A jack and an ace as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
jackass meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
jackass in Hindi
- जैकास
jackass in Tamil
- அறிவிலி, ஆண்கழுதை, பேதை
jackass in Urdu
- foolish or stupid person
- گَدھا gadhā
jackass in Bengali
- গাধা, গর্দভ, লম্বকর্ণ, হাবা
More languagesFewer languages
- jackass in Telugu
- జక్కాస్
- jackass in Malayalam
- മണ്ടശിരോമണി, ആൺകഴുത
- jackass in Kannada
- ಗಂಡುಕತ್ತೆ, ಪೆದ್ದ, ದಡ್ಡ, ಹೆಡ್ಡ
- jackass in Punjabi
- ਜੈਕਾਸ
- jackass in Nepali
- ज्याकसमा
- jackass in Arabic
- حِمَار ḥimār, غَبِيّ ḡabiyy
- Kashmiri
- خَر khar
Synonyms of jackass
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Forms of jackass
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | jackasses |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | jackasses |
| present participle | jackassing |
| past participle | jackassed |
| past | jackassed |
Origin of jackass
From jack + ass.
From the phonetic similarity of "jack, ace" to "jackass".
Words formed from jackass
Phrases with jackass
Questions about jackass
- What does jackass mean?
- Jackass means a male donkey.
- What is jackass in Hindi?
- Jackass in Hindi is जैकास. See Jackass meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is jackass?
- Jackass can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce jackass?
- Jackass is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒækæs/ (US).
- What is the plural of jackass?
- The plural of jackass is jackasses.
Words near jackass in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: jackass (page history and authors); jackass (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jackass (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jackass (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jackass (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jackass (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jackass (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jackass (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jackass (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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