Benne vs Benny - What's the difference?

benne | benny |

As an adverb benne

is .

As a proper noun benny is

a male nickname for benjamin or benny can be a female nickname for bernice or bernadette.

As a noun benny is

a stupid or dull-witted person or benny can be (label) a one-hundred-dollar bill.

benne

English

Noun

(-)

(botany, 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 exampl, 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.

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benny

English

Etymology 1

Abbreviated from

Noun

(bennies)

(slang) An amphetamine tablet.

(UK, slang) A tantrum; a fit of furious or erratic behaviour.

* 2001 , "Neil Davey", Sacked Referees'' (on newsgroup ''alt.games.champ-man )

BTW, you might like to see what happens to CM00-01 when one of your sticks of memory decides to have a benny :

* 2010 , Ian Sansom, The Bad Book Affair

'Like I told the police, I think she's just having a benny .'

* 2011 , Kate Morgan, Wicked Games (page 34)

"Stop having a benny , Liam." Gwen was getting agitated. Liam was failing miserably at his attempts to get Casey to back down.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of benefit

Alternative forms

* bennie

Noun

(bennies)

A benefit.