yenny
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
See also: Yenny
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From yen + -y (diminutive suffix), probably influenced by penny.
Noun[edit]
yenny (plural yennies)
- (informal) One yen (unit of Japanese currency); a coin worth one yen.
- 1996 May 29, Victor Murray, “Re: Wanted: A real oven”, in fj.life.in-japan[1] (Usenet):
- Went down to see the friendly gas peopl[sic] the other day. After I made it clear that I wasn't really in the mood to pay 650,000 little yennies for an oven, they relented and gave me the general lowdown on the kind of oven I need to get.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:yenny.