Jenkins
['dʒeŋkinz]
Definition
(n.) name of contempt for a flatterer of persons high in social or official life; as, the Jenkins employed by a newspaper.
Checker: Valerie
Definition
n. (coll.) a society reporter toady.
Typist: Steven
Examples
- Fleeming Jenkins that Gas engines will ultimately supplant the steam. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- How does Jenkins balance his income? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The Confederate General Jenkins was killed and Longstreet seriously wounded in this engagement. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On the 30th of April, the enemy attacked him while crossing Saline River at Jenkins's Ferry, but was repulsed with considerable loss. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- What is Jenkins? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Jenkins, who, in 1894, devised means for accomplishing it, and was one of the first, if not the first, to successfully project the views on a large screen adapted to public exhibitions. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Typist: Steven