different between fenny vs genny

English

Etymology

From Middle English fenny, from Old English fenni?; equivalent to fen +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /?f?ni/
• Rhymes: -?ni

Adjective

fenny (comparative more fenny, superlative most fenny)

1. Characteristic of a fen; marshy, swampy.
2. (now only of plants) Living or growing in a fen.

Synonyms

• (characteristic of a fen): fennish, quaggy, uliginous; see also Thesaurus:marshy

Translations

Anagrams

• fynne

Middle English

Alternative forms

• fenni

Etymology

From Old English fenni?; equivalent to fen +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?ni?/

Adjective

fenny (plural and weak singular fennye)

1. fenny, marshy; like a fen
2. (rare) rotten, tainted, sinful

Descendants

• English: fenny

References

• “fenn?, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ni

Etymology 1

Short for gentrifier.

Noun

genny (plural gennies)

1. (slang) A person from the suburbs who moves to a low-income urban area.

Etymology 2

Noun

genny (plural gennies)

1. (slang) Clipping of generator. (device that converts mechanical to electrical energy)

   Synonym: gen

Hungarian

Etymology

Back-formation from genyett (“contemptible, base, vile”), created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries. The origin of the adjective genyett is unclear. Perhaps borrowed from a Slavic language. Compare Serbo-Croatian gnjiti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?????]
• Hyphenation: genny
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

genny (plural gennyek)

1. pus (a whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria; normally found in regions of bacterial infection)
2. (vulgar) cum, jizz, sperm

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• genny 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