jenny
Appearance
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Partially from generic use of the female given name Jenny (cf. Jane) and partially from informal pronunciations of engine.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛni/
Audio (General Australian): (file) Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛni
- Hyphenation: jen‧ny
Noun
[edit]jenny (plural jennies)
- A device for spinning thread from fiber onto multiple spindles (also called spinning jenny).
- A female creature of certain kinds:
- A catmill.
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]device for spinning — see spinning jenny
female of donkey — see she-ass
Verb
[edit]jenny (third-person singular simple present jennies, present participle jennying, simple past and past participle jennied)
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From genua by association with the given name.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]jenny
Declension
[edit]Inflection of jenny (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | jenny | jennyt | |
genitive | jennyn | jennyjen | |
partitive | jennyä | jennyjä | |
illative | jennyyn | jennyihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | jenny | jennyt | |
accusative | nom. | jenny | jennyt |
gen. | jennyn | ||
genitive | jennyn | jennyjen | |
partitive | jennyä | jennyjä | |
inessive | jennyssä | jennyissä | |
elative | jennystä | jennyistä | |
illative | jennyyn | jennyihin | |
adessive | jennyllä | jennyillä | |
ablative | jennyltä | jennyiltä | |
allative | jennylle | jennyille | |
essive | jennynä | jennyinä | |
translative | jennyksi | jennyiksi | |
abessive | jennyttä | jennyittä | |
instructive | — | jennyin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Old Polish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]jenny
- Alternative form of iny
Polish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɛnnɘ
- Syllabification: jen‧ny
Adjective
[edit]jenny (not comparable, no derived adverb)
Declension
[edit]Declension of jenny (hard)
singular | plural | |||||
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masculine animate | masculine inanimate | feminine | neuter | virile (= masculine personal) | non-virile | |
nominative | jenny | jenna | jenne | jenni | jenne | |
genitive | jennego | jennej | jennego | jennych | ||
dative | jennemu | jennej | jennemu | jennym | ||
accusative | jennego | jenny | jenną | jenne | jennych | jenne |
instrumental | jennym | jenną | jennym | jennymi | ||
locative | jennym | jennej | jennym | jennych |
Further reading
[edit]- Oskar Kolberg (1867) “jenny”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 271
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- Rhymes:English/ɛni
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- English countable nouns
- Australian English
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- en:Billiards
- en:Decapods
- en:Equids
- en:Female animals
- en:Spinning
- en:Wrens
- Finnish 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Finnish/enːy
- Rhymes:Finnish/enːy/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- fi:Nautical
- fi:Sailing
- Finnish valo-type nominals
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- Old Polish lemmas
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- Rhymes:Polish/ɛnnɘ
- Rhymes:Polish/ɛnnɘ/2 syllables
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