Jenny wren

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The wren, Troglodytes troglodytes, especially as considered (in nursery-rhymes, etc.) as the wife or sweetheart of robin redbreast. UK

    "There would have been no one to superintend him, except a squirrel perhaps or a jenny wren, at which he might have winked."

  2. 2
    any of several small active brown birds of the Northern Hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects wordnet
  3. 3
    a female blue wren, or a male blue wren in non-breeding plumage. Australia

    "But Rogers had married beneath him, and the sight of the pursy upstart [...] sitting there, in satin and feathers, lording it over his own little Jenny Wren, was more than Mahony could tolerate."

  4. 4
    Synonym of herb Robert. US

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