Meaning

(chiefly Ireland) Alternative form of jennet..

Definitions by Sense

1. (chiefly Ireland) Alternative form of jennet.
2. (Ireland, by extension) A stupid person; an ass.

Example Sentences

This morning the Bishop of Ross has sent to me for a passport for the Abbot of Lindores, his kinsman, who takes with him a Spanish jinnet, and means to go from Dieppe to England, and so into Scotland.

“It was herself sent Jamesy Doyle for the jinnet, Judy; I heerd her tellin’ him to put plenty of straw into the cart.

CHAPTER XLVII. An act to regulate the straying of stock, in certain counties therein named. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That hereafter when any stray horse, mare, colt, mule, Jack, or jinnet, shall be found on the plantation or land of any citizen of this State […]

A jinnet he had and the White Knight he used to call him. That same jinnet was a born gentleman.

We had a jinnet and a cart and a tent. Sometimes the farmers would let us sleep in their sheds when we we’re working on the farms.

Isn’t it disgraceful you? Yes, I said. So why are you laughing, you jinnet.

She was only codding. Or ‘acting the jinnet’ as his da called it. Man, dear, but your mother’s an awful woman for acting the jinnet,’ he’d say.

‘You’re looking very tired - did she keep you awake?’ ‘No, she’s as good as gold.’ ‘Not like him, he’s a crying jinnet.

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Use jinnet when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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