jenny

• Jenny

Partially from generic use of the female given name Jenny (cf. Jane) and partially from informal pronunciations of engine.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛni/

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• Rhymes: -ɛni
• Hyphenation: jen‧ny

jenny (plural jennies)

1. A device for spinning thread from fiber onto multiple spindles (also called spinning jenny).
2. A female creature of certain kinds:
   2. a female donkey
   3. a female wren
   4. (Australia) a female crab.
3. A catmill.
4. In billiards and similar games, a powerful follow shot with plenty of topspin.
   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:

     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 balls.

jenny (third-person singular simple present jennies, present participle jennying, simple past and past participle jennied)

1. To wind finished lace onto cards ready for sale.

From genua by association with the given name.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjenːy/, [ˈje̞nːy]
• Rhymes: -enːy
• Syllabification^(key): jen‧ny
• Hyphenation^(key): jen‧ny

jenny

1. (nautical, sailing) synonym of genua

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /jɛnniː/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /jɛnni/

jenny

1. alternative form of iny

• Rhymes: -ɛnnɘ
• Syllabification: jen‧ny

jenny (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. (regional or dialectal, Kuyavia) alternative form of inny

• Oskar Kolberg (1867) “jenny”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 271