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Word: jinny (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...pity the young man obliged. Where upon the pickaback hitchhiker turned into an evil jinni, clamped naked, hairy thighs around the young man's neck forever after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modern Jinni | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...that Edith's fur robe covers withered legs, asks her to dance. She bursts into sobs, hysterical abuse. So begin Hof miller's visits to comfort and cheer this girl, frail, intuitive, passionate, spoiled by every luxury. For Hofmiller, pity is pleasurable until it turns into a jinni which needs his commanding officer, the War and suicide to pry loose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modern Jinni | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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