Jenny
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English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛni
Proper noun
Jenny
- A diminutive of the female given names Jane and Jennifer, also used as a formal given name.
- 1837 Leigh Hunt, Jenny Kissed Me,
- Jenny kissed me when we met,
- Jumping from the chair she sat in;
- Time, you thief, who love to get
- Sweets into your list, put that in!
- Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,
- Say that health and wealth have missed me,
- Say I'm growing old, but add,
- Jenny kissed me.
- 1840 Frederick Marryat, Poor Jack, Chapter IV,
- All this I recollect, but little more, except my mother gave me several beatings for calling my sister "Jenny", which I had learnt to do from others who knew her; but when my mother heard them, she was always very angry, and told them that her child had not such a vulgar name; at which many would laugh, and make a point of calling out "Jenny" to Virginia whenever they passed and saw her at the door.
- 1837 Leigh Hunt, Jenny Kissed Me,
Translations
female given name
Noun
Jenny (plural Jennies)Danish
Proper noun
Jenny
- A female given name of English origin.
Norwegian
Proper noun
Jenny
- A female given name of English origin.
Swedish
Alternative forms
Proper noun
Jenny
- A female given name borrowed from English in the eighteenth century.
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- English proper nouns
- English nouns
- British English
- English informal terms
- English diminutives of female given names
- Danish proper nouns
- Danish female given names
- Danish terms derived from English
- Norwegian proper nouns
- Norwegian female given names
- Norwegian terms derived from English
- Swedish proper nouns
- Swedish female given names
- Swedish terms derived from English