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janet
Cebuano
Etymology
After Filipino businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles, the mastermind of the Priority Development Assistance Fund scam.
Verb
janet
- (slang, humorous) to rip off; to steal, cheat or swindle; to scam
Dutch
Alternative forms
- jeanet
- janette
- zjanol
Etymology
Borrowed from French janet, from jeannette, from Jean d'Arc. Named after the members of a Roman Catholic girlscouts' organisation.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ja?net
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
janet f (plural janetten, diminutive janetje n)
- (Belgium, vulgar, offensive) An effeminate man
- (Belgium, vulgar, offensive, by extension) A homosexual
Synonyms
- (homosexual): homofiel
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jane
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?e?n/
- Rhymes: -e?n
- Homophone: Jain
Etymology 1
From Old French Jannes (“Genoway”).
Noun
jane (plural janes)
- (obsolete) A silver Genovese coin, first used in England in the 14th century.
- 14th c, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Rime of Sire Thopas, The Canterbury Tales, 1793, A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, Volume 1, page 124,
- His robe was of chekelatoun, / That coste many a jane.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:
- Certes was but a common Courtisane, / Yet flat refusd to haue a do with mee, / Because I could not giue her many a Iane.
- 14th c, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Rime of Sire Thopas, The Canterbury Tales, 1793, A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, Volume 1, page 124,
Etymology 2
Alternative forms.
Noun
jane (plural janes)
- Alternative letter-case form of Jane, a woman.
- Alternative spelling of jean
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. VII, Over-Production
- Ye miscellaneous, ignoble manufacturing individuals, ye have produced too much! We accuse you of making above two-hundred thousand shirts for the bare backs of mankind. Your trousers too, which you have made, of fustian, of cassimere, of Scotch-plaid, of jane, nankeen and woollen broadcloth, are they not manifold?
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. VII, Over-Production
- A female client of a prostitute.
Anagrams
- Jaen, Jaén, Jean, Jena, jean
Japanese
Romanization
jane
- R?maji transcription of ???
Pali
Alternative forms
Noun
jane
- locative singular of jana
- accusative plural of jana
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