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"Terms with Danish translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Korean translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Norwegian translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations"
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"word": "creeping Jenny"
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{
"word": "Kick 'em Jenny"
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"2": "Jenny",
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"name": "desc"
}
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},
{
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"2": "Jenny",
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
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"args": {
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"2": "Jenny",
"bor": "1"
},
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}
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"2": "Jenny",
"bor": "1"
},
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"17": "Jody",
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"ref": "1837, Leigh Hunt, Jenny Kissed Me:",
"text": "Jenny kissed me when we met,\nJumping from the chair she sat in;\nTime, you thief, who love to get\nSweets into your list, put that in!\nSay I'm weary, say I'm sad,\nSay that health and wealth have missed me,\nSay I'm growing old, but add,\nJenny kissed me.",
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"ref": "1840, Frederick Marryat, chapter IV, in Poor Jack:",
"text": "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.",
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},
{
"ref": "1994, Gerald N[iels] Lund, chapter 27, in A Season of Joy: A Historical Novel (The Work and the Glory; 5), Salt Lake City, Ut.: Bookcraft, published 1996 (3rd printing), →ISBN, pages 452–453:",
"text": "Jennifer Jo McIntire (with two Jennys now, everyone had followed Matthew’s lead and taken to calling her by her full name) […]",
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"ref": "2003, Roy Strong, “The Inheritance”, in The Laskett: The Story of a Garden, London: Bantam Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 25:",
"text": "Mrs Wreford Brown died in 1946 and the house passed to Colonel and Mrs Jenny. […] From the Jennys it fell into the hands of developers and from them it passed to Colonel and Mrs Bryant and thence to us.",
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"ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒɛni/"
},
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{
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
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"sense": "female given name",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "جِينِي"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Zhēnnī",
"sense": "female given name",
"word": "珍妮"
},
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"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "female given name",
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},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "female given name",
"word": "Jenni"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "Jenī",
"sense": "female given name",
"word": "ジェニー"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "Jeni",
"sense": "female given name",
"word": "제니"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "female given name",
"word": "Jenny"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "female given name",
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],
"word": "Дже́нни"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "female given name",
"word": "Juanita"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "female given name",
"word": "Juani"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "female given name",
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],
"word": "Jenny"
},
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"lang": "Swedish",
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}
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"English female given names from French",
"English female given names from Hebrew",
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"Terms with Danish translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Korean translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Norwegian translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations"
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"word": "inverted Jenny"
},
{
"word": "Jenny invert"
},
{
"word": "upside-down Jenny"
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"A Wren (a member of the WRNS)."
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"(UK, informal) A Wren (a member of the WRNS)."
],
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"A Curtiss JN-4 airplane."
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"(slang) A Curtiss JN-4 airplane."
],
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},
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],
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-31 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (bcd5c38 and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.