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The animal meaning of jackass is "a male donkey". This somehow explains it's application to some members of the human species. In an international humour competition, the joke below was judged by a majority of Americans and Canadians to be very funny.


Texan: "Where are you from?"

Harvard graduate: "I come from a place where we do not end our sentences with prepositions."

Texan: "Okay ­ where are you from, jackass?"


We obviously like to refer to idiocy as evidenced by the large number of synonyms in English:

ass, birdbrain, blockhead, bonehead, boob, buffoon, dimwit, dodo, dolt, donkey, dope, dork, drip, duffer, dullard, dumb bunny, dumb cluck, dumb head, dumb ox, dumbbell, dunderhead, fool, goof, goof ball, goon, half-baked, half-wit, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, jackass, jerk, knucklehead, lame-brain, lightweight, loon, lout, lunkhead, moron, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, numskull, oaf, pinhead, scatterbrain, schmuck, schnook, simpleton, twit