genny

See also: Genny

English

Short for gentrifier.

genny (plural gennies)

genny (plural gennies)

(slang) Clipping of generator (“device that converts mechanical to electrical energy”).
Synonym: gen

Back-formation from genyett (“contemptible, base, vile”), created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries. The origin of the adjective genyett is unclear. Perhaps borrowed from a Slavic language. Compare Serbo-Croatian gnjiti.^[1]^[2]

genny (plural gennyek)

pus (a whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria; normally found in regions of bacterial infection)
(vulgar) cum, jizz, sperm

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	genny	gennyek
accusative	gennyet	gennyeket
dative	gennynek	gennyeknek
instrumental	gennyel	gennyekkel
causal-final	gennyért	gennyekért
translative	gennyé	gennyekké
terminative	gennyig	gennyekig
essive-formal	gennyként	gennyekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	gennyben	gennyekben
superessive	gennyen	gennyeken
adessive	gennynél	gennyeknél
illative	gennybe	gennyekbe
sublative	gennyre	gennyekre
allative	gennyhez	gennyekhez
elative	gennyből	gennyekből
delative	gennyről	gennyekről
ablative	gennytől	gennyektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	gennyé	gennyeké
non-attributive possessive - plural	gennyéi	gennyekéi

Compound words

^ genny in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
^ genny in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN