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English

Etymology

From Malay bene, or possibly from Wolof or Eastern Maninkakan.

Noun

benne (uncountable)

1. (chiefly attributive) Sesame.

   benne oil; benne seed

   • 2003, Carole Marsh, The Kitchen House: How Yesterday's Black Women Created Today's Most Popular & Famous American Foods!, page 15,

     Benne (sesame) seeds were secretly brought to America on the slave ships by black women who had used them in their native cooking. Benne seed cookies and candy were made by black cooks in Charleston and other lowcountry South Carolina locations.

   • 2010, Frederick C. Knight, Working the Diaspora: The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650—1850, page 62,

     For example, Rosanna Williams recounted that her African-born father would "plant mostly benne and rice." Emma Hunter also remembered that her grandmother planted benne.

   • 2013, David S. Shields, Chapter 3: Prospecting for Oil, John T. Edge, Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, Ted Ownby (editors), The Larder: Food Studies Methods from the American South, page 65,

     A window on the small-scale world of sesame oil production and benne cake livestock feeding is found in the pages of Thomas Walter Peyre's plantation journal (1834–59) at the South Carolina Historical Society. […] African Anerican farming of benne can be imputed only by anecdotal reports, yet numerous records attest to benne’s importance in the slave diet. Indeed, a complex benne cookery adapted from African practices was recorded.

French

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

benne f (plural bennes)

1. bin
2. barrow
3. dump truck
4. cable car

Further reading

• “benne” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German Low German

Adverb

benne

1. (in some dialects, including Low Prussian) inside

See also

• Plautdietsch: benna

Hungarian

Etymology

From the adverb benn +? -e (possessive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?n??]
• Hyphenation: ben?ne
• Rhymes: -n?

Pronoun

benne

1. inside someone or something, in him/her/it, him/her/it

Declension

Derived terms

• benne van a korban
• van benne valami

See also

• Appendix:Hungarian pronouns

References

Further reading

• benne in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• benne in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2021)

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nne

Noun

benne f

1. plural of benna

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ni

Etymology 1

ben(zedrine) +? -y

Noun

benny (plural bennies)

1. (slang, usually in the plural) An amphetamine tablet.

   Coordinate term: dexy

Verb

benny (third-person singular simple present bennies, present participle bennying, simple past and past participle bennied)

1. (slang, usually with "up") To take amphetamines.

Etymology 2

From Benny.

Noun

benny (plural bennies)

1. (Britain, slang) Alternative letter-case form of Benny (“tantrum”)
2. (US, slang) Alternative letter-case form of Benny (“one-hundred-dollar bill”)

Etymology 3

Abbreviation of benefit.

Alternative forms

• bennie

Noun

benny (plural bennies)

1. (informal) A benefit.

Etymology 4

Unknown or disputed. Attested from the late 19th century. Possibly from benjamin, slang from the early 19th century for a type of greatcoat. Possibly in reference to Uncle Benny or Uncle Ben (“a pawnbroker”), who might accept coats during the warm summer months, though the latter slang term does not appear to be attested before 1920.

Noun

benny (plural bennies)

1. (slang, dated) An overcoat.
   • 1902, Clarence Louis Cullen, More Ex-Tank Tales (page 32)

     […] and figuring on where the engraved papers were going to come from that 'ud enable me to yank one of the bennies out of the eaves. Nobody ever saw me without an overcoat, and the right kind of an overcoat, […]

   • 1931, The Tomahawk of Alpha Sigma Phi (volume 28, issue 1, page 12)

     Horse-hide coats are common, but real "honest t' God" fur bennies are very, very scarce.

2. (US, slang, obsolete) A straw hat. [early 20th century]

Etymology 5

Clipping of eggs Benedict.

Noun

benny (plural bennies)

1. (informal) Synonym of eggs Benedict

References