Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
jenny .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word jennies.
Examples
-
It seems so fine to really earn some of the money which everybody needs so much, just by standing before one of those 'jennies' and doing what little they did.
Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life Evelyn Raymond 1876
-
What made it worse, my eye was out, and Cutts 'luck was dead in - he brought off middle-pocket jennies that Joe Bennet wouldn't have looked at, missed easy hazards and had his ball roll all round the table for a cannon, and when he tried long pots as often as not he got a pair of breeches.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
-
When Lafayette sent Washington another jackass and two jennies from the Isle of Malta, Washington described them as “the most valuable thing you could have sent me.”
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
-
When Lafayette sent Washington another jackass and two jennies from the Isle of Malta, Washington described them as “the most valuable thing you could have sent me.”
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
-
When Lafayette sent Washington another jackass and two jennies from the Isle of Malta, Washington described them as “the most valuable thing you could have sent me.”
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
-
Cotton thread produced on spinning wheels or spinning jennies was not generally strong enough to be used as the warp as well as the weft of cloth, which meant that it had to be interwoven with linen or wool yarn.
-
It was in the 1760s, although it is impossible to say exactly when, that the first 'spinning jennies' appeared.
-
If only the rich-world loans had gone for productive inputs (spinning jennies, anyone?) rather than wide-screen TVs!
-
Hargreaves was allegedly driven out of Lancashire and developed his jennies in Nottingham.
-
From what cursed old antediluvian, who lived before the invention of spinning-jennies, she learned this craft, Heaven only knows; but there she sits, with her work pinned to her knee — not the pretty taper silken fabric, with which
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.