act the jinnet
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[edit]act the jinnet (third-person singular simple present acts the jinnet, present participle acting the jinnet, simple past and past participle acted the jinnet)
- (Ireland) Alternative form of act the jennet.
- 2012 July 12, Pat McCabe, The Dead School[1], page 3:
- She was only codding. Or ‘acting the jinnet’ as his da called it. Man, dear, but your mother’s an awful woman for acting the jinnet,’ he’d say.