act the jinnet

English

Alternative forms

• act the jennet

Verb

act the jinnet (third-person singular simple present acts the jinnet, present participle acting the jinnet, simple past and past participle acted the jinnet)

1. (Ireland) Alternative form of act the jennet
   • 2012 July 12, Pat McCabe, The Dead School‎^[1], page 3:

     She was only codding. Or ‘acting the jinnet’ as his da called it. Man, dear, but your mother’s an awful woman for acting the jinnet,’ he’d say.