jenny
/ˈdʒɛni
/noun (plural jennies)
1A female donkey or ass.Both jennies have foals each year which the couple sell on to fellow donkey lovers....
- The ‘boys’ are pastured adjacent to the mares and jennies, and electric fencing keeps everybody back.
- The first solution to this bottleneck appeared around 1765 when James Hargreaves, a carpenter by trade, invented his cotton-spinning jenny.
2 short for spinning jenny.The jenny had between six and twenty-four spindles mounted on a sliding carriage.
Origin
Early 17th century (used to denote a female mammal or bird): pet form of the given name Janet (compare with jack1).