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Jenny
fem. personal name, originally diminutive of
Jane
or
Janet
; attested from c. 1600 as female equivalent of
jack
(n.), and like it applied to animals (for example
Jenny wren
, 1640s) and machinery (
spinning jenny
, 1783).