Meaning of jenny-ass | Babel Free
Equivalents
Suomi
aasintamma
Examples
“c. 1849, G. Herbert Rodwell, Old London Bridge, London: Henry Lea, Chapter 15, p. 158, […] this little donkey could not be trusted in the road, for it was always getting under the wheels, because it would not let⟳ its mother, a fine fat old jenny ass in the shafts, alone.”
“But a man who holds so tightly to what he calls his rights over what he calls his debts will hold⟳ tightly also to what he calls his rights over her whom he calls his wife. No sir smile⟳ neighbour shall covet his ox or his wife or his manservant or his maidservant or his jackass. / —Or his jennyass, Buck Mulligan antiphoned.”
“[…] old rope is for tethering your jennyass […]”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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