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jenneting|ˈdʒɛnɪtɪŋ|
Forms: 7 iennit-, jenit-, jenet-, junit-, junet-, genet-, ginniting, 8 jenit-, junetin, gen(n)iting, jeunetting, 9 gennetting, geniton, juneating, 8– jenneting.
[app. from F. Jean or Jeannet, in pomme de Saint-Jean ‘S. John's apple, a kind of soone-ripe Sweeting’ (Cotgr.): cf. pomme de Jeannet in Norman patois. The termination is conformed to that of sweeting, hasting, etc. Etymological ingenuity in the 17–18th c. saw in the word a reference to June, and ‘improved’ it into Juniting and June-eating.]
A kind of early apple.
1601Holland Pliny I. 540 The Apple trees..the hastie kind that bringeth sweet Iennitings. 1625Bacon Ess., Gardens (Arb.) 556 Early Peares, and Plummes in Fruit; Ginnitings; Quadlins. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 301 Junitings are the first kind of Apples which are soonest ripe, coming in and going out with the Month of June. 1741Complete Fam.-Piece ii. i.i. 383 Apples [July]..White Jeunetting, Margaret Apple. 1803J. Abercrombie's Ev. Man his own Gard. 671 Apples, Jenneting, or June eating; smallest early ripe. 1833Tennyson Blackbird iii, With that gold dagger of thy bill To fret the summer jenneting.
b. jenneting pear: An early pear; = F. poire de la Saint-Jean.
1695Westmacott Script. Herb. 11 The Fruit..is about the bigness of a small Jeneting Pear. |