Noun: jenny
| Singular | jenny |
| Plural | jennies |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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. [1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like jenny
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Partially from generic use of the female given name Jenny (cf. Jane) and partially from informal pronunciations of engine.