(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:35:15

Jen"kins (?), n.

name of contempt for a flatterer of persons high in social or official life; as, the Jenkins employed by a newspaper.

[Colloq. Eng. & U.S.]

G. W. Curtis.

 

© Webster 1913.

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