jynx – English noun declension

English noun forms of jynx

Noun: jynx
Singularjynx
Pluraljynges

Sample Sentences

  • Where not a Silver Iyng, or Pigeon, fell To Pay the Markman. [1649, George Daniel, Trinarchodia: Henry V, line ccxcv:]
  • Jynx, the Wry-neck, or Emmet-hunter, or as some say, the Wag-tail. [1706, “Jynx”, in John Kersey, editor, Phillips’s New World of Words:]
  • The Jynx or Wryneck…I first heard this year on March 29. [1708, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, XXVI, page 123:]
  • Its sharp and harsh cry, resembling a repetition of 'Jynx', 'Jynx', 'Jynx'. [1845, The Zoologist: A Miscellany of Natural History III, page 1,107]
  • A youth or females hold a bird, supposed to be the iynx, in their hands. [1857, Samuel Birch, History of Ancient Pottery, volume I, published 1858, page 297:]
  • These are the Philtres, Allurements, Jynges, Inveiglements [les philtres, iynges, et attraictz], Baits, and Enticements of Love. [ante''' 1693, Sir Thomas Urquhart (translator), François Rabelais (author), The Third Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, chapter i, page 23]
  • You can extend the idea of isograms to sentences that don't repeat any letters. Interestingly, there are several English sentences that use each letter exactly once. They're all pretty weird and either borrow from other languages or use acronyms that were later accepted as English words. For example:
  • Veldt jynx grimps waqf zho buck
  • As I'm typing this, my word processor is marking each of the above words (save for “buck”) as spelled incorrectly, though I promise they're real words. Honest. [2015 February 26, “CS106A Practice Midterm 2 Solutions”, in Stanford University, page 2:]
  • Then is the Intelligible Jynx; next which are the Synoches, the Empyreal, the Ætherial and the Material; after the Synoches are the Teletarchs…Intelligent Jynges do themselves also understand from the Father By unspeakable Counsels being moved so as to understand. [1655, Thomas Stanley, The History of the Chaldaick Philosophy, published 1701, page 17/2:]

Etymology

An adaptation of the Latin iynx (“wryneck”), itself an adaptation of the Ancient Greek ἴϋγξ (íünx, “Eurasian wryneck, Jynx torquilla; spell or charm; passionate yearning”). See: Latin Nouns 'iynx', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ἴϋγξ'.