genny

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See also: Genny

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Short for gentrifier.

Noun

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genny (plural gennies)

  1. (slang) A person from the suburbs who moves to a low-income urban area.

Etymology 2

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Noun

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genny (plural gennies)

  1. (slang) Clipping of generator (“device that converts mechanical to electrical energy”).
    Synonym: gen

Hungarian

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Etymology

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Back-formation from genyett (“contemptible, base, vile”), created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries. The origin of the adjective genyett is unclear. Perhaps borrowed from a Slavic language. Compare Serbo-Croatian gnjiti.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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genny (plural gennyek)

  1. pus (a whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria; normally found in regions of bacterial infection)
  2. (vulgar) cum, jizz, sperm

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative genny gennyek
accusative gennyet gennyeket
dative gennynek gennyeknek
instrumental gennyel gennyekkel
causal-final gennyért gennyekért
translative gennyé gennyekké
terminative gennyig gennyekig
essive-formal gennyként gennyekként
essive-modal — —
inessive gennyben gennyekben
superessive gennyen gennyeken
adessive gennynél gennyeknél
illative gennybe gennyekbe
sublative gennyre gennyekre
allative gennyhez gennyekhez
elative gennyből gennyekből
delative gennyről gennyekről
ablative gennytől gennyektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		gennyé gennyeké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		gennyéi gennyekéi
Possessive forms of genny
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. gennyem gennyeim
2nd person sing. gennyed gennyeid
3rd person sing. gennye gennyei
1st person plural gennyünk gennyeink
2nd person plural gennyetek gennyeitek
3rd person plural gennyük gennyeik

Derived terms

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Compound words

References

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  1. ^ genny in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)
  2. ^ genny in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

Further reading

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  • genny in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
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