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janny

janny is the alternative form of jannie.

janny is the alternative form of janney.

Meaning of jannie

Noun

jannie (plural jannies)

  1. (Scotland, colloquial) A janitor.
    • He was the jannie. He couldnae not know.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 474
  2. (Internet, derogatory) A moderator of an online forum; a janitor.
    • Clean it up, jannie!

Meaning of janney

Noun

janney (plural janneys)

  1. (Newfoundland) A mummer.

See all 3 meanings of janney

Forms of janny

Noun
pluraljannies
Verb
third-person singular presentjannies
present participlejannying
past participlejannied
pastjannied

Questions about janny

What is janny the alternative form of?
Janny is the alternative form of jannie.

Words near janny in the dictionary

  1. jannissaries
  2. jannissary
  3. jannock
  4. jannocks
  5. janns
  6. janny
  7. jannying
  8. janolid
  9. janolids
  10. Janos
  11. Janosik

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Adapted from Wiktionary: janny (page history and authors); jannie (page history and authors); janney (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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