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).
Rhymes
- Queensland blue
- Queensland blue heeler
- Queenslander
- Queensland heeler
- Queensland hemp
- Queensland kauri
- Queensland maple
- Queensland poplar
- Queensland sore
- Queensland walnut
- Queen's Messenger
- queen's metal
- queen snake
- queen's pattern
- queen's pawn
- Queen's Proctor
- queen's pudding
- queen's rook
- queen's root
- Queen's Scout
- Queen's Speech
- queen staysail
- queen stitch
- Queen Street
- queen substance