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• Jenny

語源

Partially from generic use of the female given name Jenny (cf. Jane) and partially from informal pronunciations of engine.

発音

• IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɛni/
• 韻: -ɛni
• ハイフネーション: jen‧ny

名詞

jenny (plural jennies)

1. A device for spinning thread from fiber onto multiple spindles (also called spinning jenny).
2. A female creature of certain kinds:
   1. a female donkey
   2. a female wren
   3. (Australia) a female crab.
3. A catmill.
4. In billiards and similar games, a powerful follow shot with plenty of topspin.
   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:

     Cream's potting had been extraordinary, extraordinary, I remember, said Goff. I never saw anything like it. We were watching breathless, as he set himself for a long thin jenny, with the black of all balls.

派生語

動詞

jenny (third-person singular simple present jennies, present participle jennying, simple past and past participle jennied)

1. To wind finished lace onto cards ready for sale.