This was sent to me by my eldest daughter, who is a linguistics professor/ O.T.

[Guest guest]

Heinie—probably a form of Heinz, another common German given name.

Heinie or Hiney is dated by Lighter to Life in Sing Sing, a 1904 book

and says it was in common usage during WWI to denote Germans. 1 Heinie

is also defined in the dictionary as being slang for buttocks.

It is definitely hard for me to imagine, having been married to the

ultimate German, how a word that starts out

sounding like " Heinz, " a common German name, ends up pertaining to the

human bottom. I think that I shall

spare you my speculations on this matter.

Cheers!

n