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:
   1. a female donkey
   2. a female wren
   3. (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, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →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.

< genua

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

jenny

1. (nautical, sailing) Synonym of genua.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /jɛnnɨː/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /jɛnnɨ/

jenny

1. Alternative form of iny.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɛn.nɨ/
• Rhymes: -ɛnnɨ
• Syllabification: jen‧ny

jenny (not comparable)

1. Regional form of inny