Jan vs Jank - What's the difference?
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As a proper noun jan is , cognate to john. As a noun jank is (computing|slang|rare) problematic blocking of a software application's user interface due to slow operations. As an adjective jank is janky.
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jan English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)
Etymology 2
Shortened from (Janet) and (Janice).
Proper noun
( en proper noun)
A female nickname, sometimes used as a formal given name.
* 1899 Paul Leicester Ford: Janice Meredith : Chapter 1:
- "Yes, Mommy," answered Janice. Then she turned to her friend and asked, "Shall I wear my light chintz and kenton kerchief, or my purple and white striped Persian?" "Sufficiently smart for a country lass, Jan ," cried her friend.
* 2008 , (Stephen King), Just After Sunset , Simon and Schuster (2009), ISBN 1416586652, page 129:
- She's startled. How long has it been since he called her Jax instead of Janet or Jan ? The last is a nickname she secretly hates. It makes her think of that syrupy-sweet actress on Lassie when she was a kid, the little boy (Timmy, his name was Timmy) always fell down a well or got bitten by a snake or trapped under a rock, and what kind of parents put a kid's life in the hands of a fucking collie?
Etymology 3
From (etyl), (etyl), (etyl), (etyl), modern Scandinavian etc. Jan, from (etyl) .
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jank English
Noun
( en noun)
(computing, slang, rare) Problematic blocking of a software application's user interface due to slow operations.
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