Meaning of Jenkins | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname originating as a patronymic of Cornish and in English ("mainly of Devon") origin.
2. A flatterer or sycophant.
   colloquial, dated, derogatory
3. A city in Kentucky.
4. A city in Minnesota.

Equivalents

Examples

“the Jenkins employed by a newspaper”

“October 1869, George William Curtis, Civil-Service Reform rouse the country for Jones and Justice or Jenkins and the Rights of Man”

“Because they are styled "the executive," "executive officers," &c., by their Jenkinses, and are declared by the same authorities to possess unbounded knowledge, and transcendent "executive ability," they sometimes fancy themselves the Czar, the Shah, or the Grand Turk […]”

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