An American regional term for a merry-go-round or roundabout — a spinning ride typically found at fairs and playgrounds.
An American regional term for a merry-go-round or roundabout — a spinning ride typically found at fairs and playgrounds. The name is particularly common in rural Southern and Appalachian American English. 'Jenny' as a generic female name appears in various folk names for mechanical devices.
The kids begged for another turn on the flying jenny at the county fair.
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(slang) A Curtiss JN-4 airplane.
(UK, informal) A Wren (a member of the WRNS).
Scottish term for the cranefly — the long-legged, spindly flying insect that blunders around rooms and terrifies people far out of proportion to its actual harmlessness. In England it's called a daddy-longlegs; in Scotland jenny-longlegs is the preferred form. Jenny is a traditional diminutive female name used in many British animal nicknames. Either way, it's a large, ungainly insect that nobody wants landing on their face.
(Scottish) a person who drinks a lot of tea; a tea addict; someone fussy about tea.
(US, regional) roundabout; merry-go-round.