JENNY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jenny mean? 

• JENNY (noun)
  The noun JENNY has 2 senses:

1. United States architect who designed the first skyscraper in which a metal skeleton was used (1832-1907)

2. female donkey

  Familiarity information: JENNY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JENNY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States architect who designed the first skyscraper in which a metal skeleton was used (1832-1907)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Jenny; William Le Baron Jenny

Instance hypernyms:

architect; designer (someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Female donkey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

jennet; jenny; jenny ass

Hypernyms ("jenny" is a kind of...):

ass (hardy and sure-footed animal smaller and with longer ears than the horse)

 Context examples 

The word 'limes' was like fire to powder, his yellow face flushed, and he rapped on his desk with an energy which made Jenny skip to her seat with unusual rapidity.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was a most unfortunate moment for denouncing Amy, and Jenny knew it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

No sooner had the guest paid the usual stale compliments and bowed himself out, than Jenny, under pretense of asking an important question, informed Mr. Davis, the teacher, that Amy March had pickled limes in her desk.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mary Kingsley insisted on lending her her watch till recess, and Jenny Snow, a satirical young lady, who had basely twitted Amy upon her limeless state, promptly buried the hatchet and offered to furnish answers to certain appalling sums.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A bitter sense of wrong and the thought of Jenny Snow helped her to bear it, and, taking the ignominious place, she fixed her eyes on the stove funnel above what now seemed a sea of faces, and stood there, so motionless and white that the girls found it hard to study with that pathetic figure before them.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)