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Jenny   /dʒˈɛni/   Listen
noun
Jenny  n.  (pl. jennies)  
1.
A familiar or pet form of the proper name Jane.
2.
(Zool.) A familiar name of the European wren.
Jenny ass (Zool.), a female ass; also, a female of certain other animals.


Jenny  n.  A machine for spinning a number of threads at once, used in factories. Also called spinning jenny.





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"Jenny" Quotes from Famous Books



... Archbishop chose an admirable messenger in Walls, to send to me; yet I think him fitter for a messenger than anything.—The D—— she has! I did not observe her looks. Will she rot out of modesty with Lady Giffard? I pity poor Jenny(18)—but her husband is a dunce, and with respect to him she loses little by her deafness. I believe, Madam Stella, in your accounts you mistook one liquor for another, and it was an hundred and forty quarts of wine, and thirty-two of water.—This is all written in the morning ...
— The Journal to Stella • Jonathan Swift
... had the last word, sae ye can go to bed wi' an easy mind. And, Jenny, woman, dinna let your quarrel wi' Maggie Launder come between you and honest sleep. I think that will settle her," he observed with a pawky smile, as his housekeeper shut the door ...
— Scottish sketches • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... same Still darts out faun-like from the half-ruin'd fac Questing and passive .... "Ah, poor Jenny's case"... ...
— Hugh Selwyn Mauberley • Ezra Pound
... pleasant girl—Jenny Rosity," the boy said with a perfectly serious face. "And I'm sure that Ella Gant is one of ...
— The Corner House Girls Growing Up - What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended • Grace Brooks Hill
... "Jenny," said she, at length, turning to, the other sick child, "your brother is at rest! James is at rest; he will disturb your sleep now no more—nor ...
— Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent - The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two • William Carleton


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