/ˈd͡ʒɛni/
OriginPartially from generic use of the female given name Jenny (cf. Jane) and partially from informal pronunciations of engine.
- A device for spinning thread from fiber onto multiple spindles (also called spinning jenny).
- a female donkey
- a female wren
- Australiaa female crab.
- A catmill.
- In billiards and similar games, a powerful follow shot with plenty of topspin.
“Cream's potting had been extraordinary, extraordinary, I remember, said Goff. I never saw anything like it. We were watching breathless, as he set himself for a long thin jenny, with the black of all ”
- UK, informalA Wren (a member of the WRNS).
- slangA Curtiss JN-4 airplane.
- alt-ofAlternative letter-case form of jenny.
- To wind finished lace onto cards ready for sale.
- A female given name.
“Jenny kissed me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief, who love to get
Sweets into your list, put that in!
Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,
Say that health and wealth have missed ”
“All this I recollect, but little more, except my mother gave me several beatings for calling my sister "Jenny", which I had learnt to do from others who knew her; but when my mother heard them, she wa”
“Jennifer Jo McIntire (with two Jennys now, everyone had followed Matthew’s lead and taken to calling her by her full name) […]”
- A surname.
“Mrs Wreford Brown died in 1946 and the house passed to Colonel and Mrs Jenny. […] From the Jennys it fell into the hands of developers and from them it passed to Colonel and Mrs Bryant and thence to u”
Formsjennies(plural) · Jenny(alternative) · jennies(present, singular, third-person) · jennying(participle, present) · jennied(participle, past) · jennied(past) · Jennys(plural) · Jennies(plural) · Jenni(alternative) · Jennie(alternative)