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Jinglish

Jinglish is the alternative form of Jenglish.

Meaning of Jenglish

Noun

Jenglish (uncountable)

  1. Japanese-influenced English, especially when nonstandard or ungrammatical.
    • That this company is half Japanese-owned is obvious. Japanese words spelled out in English (what someone referred to as “Jenglish”) are used and posted throughout the plant.1997, James W. Rinehart, Christopher Huxley & David Robertson, Just Another Car Factory?: Lean Production and Its Discontents
    Synonyms:
    Janglish, Engrish

Questions about Jinglish

What is Jinglish the alternative form of?
Jinglish is the alternative form of Jenglish.

Words near Jinglish in the dictionary

  1. jingling
  2. jingling Johnnies
  3. jingling Johnny
  4. jinglingly
  5. jinglings
  6. Jinglish
  7. jingly
  8. jingly-jangly
  9. Jingmen
  10. jingmenvirus
  11. jingmenviruses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Jinglish (page history and authors); Jenglish (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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