Jackass vs. Horse

Jackass vs. Horse — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Jackass and Horse

Jackassnoun

a male donkey

Horsenoun

Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.

Jackassnoun

a foolish or stupid person

Horsenoun

A hoofed mammal, of the genus Equus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.

A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.

Jackassnoun

an inappropriately rude or obnoxious person

Horsenoun

(zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including the zebra or the ass.

These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses.
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Jackassproper noun

(poker slang) a jack and an ace as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity

Horsenoun

Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).

We should place two units of horse and one of foot on this side of the field.All the King's horses and all the King's men, couldn't put Humpty together again.

Jackassverb

(rare) to behave very obnoxiously

Horsenoun

The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.

Now just remind me how the horse moves again?

Jackassnoun

a man who is a stupid incompetent fool

Horsenoun

(slang) A large person.

Every linebacker they have is a real horse.
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Jackassnoun

male donkey

Horsenoun

(historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.

Horsenoun

Equipment with legs.

Horsenoun

In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top .

She's scored very highly with the parallel bars; let's see how she does with the horse.

Horsenoun

A frame with legs, used to support something.

a clothes horse; a sawhorse

Horsenoun

(nautical) Type of equipment.

Horsenoun

A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.

Horsenoun

A breastband for a leadsman.

Horsenoun

An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.

Horsenoun

A jackstay.

Horsenoun

(mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.

Horsenoun

(slang) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.

Horsenoun

(US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E).

Horsenoun

A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.

Horsenoun

horseplay; tomfoolery

Horsenoun

Heroin drug.

Alright, mate, got any horse?

Horseverb

(intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)

Horseverb

(transitive) To provide with a horse.

Horseverb

(obsolete) To get on horseback.

Horseverb

To sit astride of; to bestride.

Horseverb

(of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).

Horseverb

To take or carry on the back.

Horseverb

To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.

Horsenoun

solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

Horsenoun

a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs

Horsenoun

troops trained to fight on horseback;

500 horse led the attack

Horsenoun

a framework for holding wood that is being sawed

Horsenoun

a chessman in the shape of a horse's head; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)

Horseverb

provide with a horse or horses