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A word for a female donkey, just as "jack" is a male one — it's also used sometimes for the females of a few other animals. History class is where most students meet this word another way: the "spinning jenny," invented in the 1700s, was an early machine that could spin many threads of cotton at once, and it was a big deal in the early Industrial Revolution.
母驢（相對於公驢 jack）；珍妮紡紗機（工業革命時期的紡織機）
組成The old textile machine, the "spinning jenny," may be named after a girl called Jenny, though nobody is fully sure — some say the name actually comes from the word "engine."
原始詞典資料13 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Jennyname/ˈd͡ʒɛni/
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A female given name.
- 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.
- 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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A surname.
- 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.
Jennynoun/ˈd͡ʒɛni/
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informalA Wren (a member of the WRNS).
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slangA Curtiss JN-4 airplane.
jennynoun/ˈd͡ʒɛni/
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A device for spinning thread from fiber onto multiple spindles (also called spinning jenny).
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A female creature of certain kinds:
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A female creature of certain kinds:
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A female creature of certain kinds:
- 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.
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A female creature of certain kinds:
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A catmill.
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In billiards and similar games, a powerful follow shot with plenty of topspin.
- 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.
jennyverb/ˈd͡ʒɛni/
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To wind finished lace onto cards ready for sale.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。