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Jennilyn

Jennilyn proper noun: a female given name originating as a coinage, a twentieth-century blend of Jennifer and Lyn (or their variants).

Proper noun

Jennilyn

  1. A female given name originating as a coinage, a twentieth-century blend of Jennifer and Lyn (or their variants).
    • The girl, Jennilyn, was very dark, like her mama […]1995, Timothy Mo, Brownout on Breadfruit Boulevard
    • […] Jennilyn Mann, who painstakingly put the manuscript into desktop publishing format […]1999, Mary Ann Farquhar, Children's literature in China: from Lu Xun to Mao Zedong

Questions about Jennilyn

What does Jennilyn mean?
Jennilyn means a female given name originating as a coinage, a twentieth-century blend of Jennifer and Lyn (or their variants).
What part of speech is Jennilyn?
Jennilyn is a proper noun.

Words near Jennilyn in the dictionary

  1. jenniers
  2. jennies
  3. Jennifer
  4. Jennifer Aniston neuron
  5. Jennifer Aniston neurons
  6. Jennilyn
  7. Jenning
  8. Jenninges
  9. Jennings
  10. Jennings County
  11. Jenningses

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