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jinny

jinny is the dated form of jinni.

jinny is the alternative form of jenny.

Meaning of jenny

Noun

jenny (plural jennies)

  1. A device for spinning thread from fiber onto multiple spindles (also called spinning jenny).
  2. A female donkey.
  3. A female wren.
  4. A female cat.
    • Of course all the stock went by road and the house cat—a jenny it was—was put into a basket and driven in the trap along with one or two particular things and the women.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London
  5. (Australia) A female crab.
  6. A catmill.

See all 12 meanings of jenny

Proper noun capitalized: Jinny

Jinny

  1. A diminutive of the female given names (chiefly) Virginia, (sometimes) Eugenia, and (rarely) Genevieve.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Jinny.

Forms of jinny

pluraljinnies

Origin of jinny

Shortening, chiefly of Virginia (which is also shortened to Ginny), sometimes of Eugenia, and rarely of Genevieve (more often shortened to Genny).

Phrases with jinny

Questions about jinny

What does jinny mean?
Jinny means a diminutive of the female given names (chiefly) Virginia, (sometimes) Eugenia, and (rarely) Genevieve.
What is jinny the dated form of?
Jinny is the dated form of jinni.
What part of speech is jinny?
Jinny is a proper noun.

Words near jinny in the dictionary

  1. jinniyeh
  2. jinniyehs
  3. jinniyya
  4. jinniyyas
  5. jinns
  6. jinny
  7. jinny road
  8. jinny roads
  9. jinnyrickshaw
  10. jinnyrickshaws
  11. jinnywink

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jinny (page history and authors); Jinny (page history and authors); jenny (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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