jackass
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jackass¹
- /ˈd͡ʒækæs/ US
noun jackasses
- A male donkey.
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A foolish or stupid person.
Similar: jackaninny, idiot, addle-brain, addlehead, addle pate, airhead, baboon, beanbrain, beetlebrain, beetlehead, berk, bimbo
- An inappropriately rude or obnoxious person. Bobby, only jackasses go around saying how much money they make.
- 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] a
- The laughing kookaburra.
verb jackasses · jackassing · jackassed
- To behave very obnoxiously.
jackass²
- /ˈd͡ʒækæs/ US
Where it comes from
From the phonetic similarity of "jack, ace" to "jackass".
noun jackasses
- A jack and an ace as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: jack, goose, cuckoo, zany, fathead, goof, bull, sucker, mule, donkey, burro, jock, pisshead, bum, ape, twat
Translations
Talk about this word "jackass." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/jackass. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. jackass. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/jackass "jackass." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/jackass.Cite this
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title = {jackass},
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