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Brewer's: Jenny
The spinning jenny means the little spinning engine. The word is a corrupt diminutive, ginie. It is an error to derive the word from the inventor's wife or daughter, seeing his wife's name was Elizabeth, and he had no daughter.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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