jackass
verbEtymology From jack + ass.
1
Rare To behave very obnoxiously.
jackass
nounUS /ˈd͡ʒækæs/
Etymology From jack + ass.
1
A male donkey.
2
US A foolish or stupid person.
3
US 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)
- 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 day.'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)