Jessica vs Jenny - What's the difference?
jessica | jenny |
; formerly rare, but since the 1970s popular in all English-speaking countries .
* 1594 William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice: Act V: Scene I:
* 1996 , The Writer's Child , The Sandman Book of Dreams, HarperCollins, ISBN 0002246325, page 154:
A device for spinning thread from fiber onto multiple spindles (also called (spinning jenny)).
A female creature of certain kinds, such as wren and donkey.
A catmill.
As proper nouns the difference between jessica and jenny
is that jessica is ; formerly rare, but since the 1970s popular in all english-speaking countries while jenny is a diminutive of the female given names jane and jennifer, also used as a formal given name.As a noun jenny is
(uk|informal) a wren (a member of the wrns).jessica
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Lorenzo : In such a night / Did Jessica steal from the wealthy Jew, / And with an unthrift love did run from Venice, / As far as Belmont.
- Jessica : In such a night / Did young Lorenzo swear he lov'd her well, / Stealing her soul with many vows of faith, / And ne'er a true one.
- Lorenzo : In such a night / Did pretty Jessica , like a little shrew, / Slander her love, and he forgave it her.
- She will be beautiful, of course - how could our child not be beautiful? We will name her...Jessica . Yes, that's a good name, not one of those lighter-than-air names so popular among writers of romances and fairy tales. That's a name a real little girl might have.