act the jinnet
English
Alternative forms
- act the jennet
Verb
act the jinnet (third-person singular simple present acts the jinnet, present participle acting the jinnet, simple past and past participle acted the jinnet)
- (Ireland) Alternative form of act the jennet
- 2012 July 12, Pat McCabe, The Dead School, page 3:
- She was only codding. Or ‘acting the jinnet’ as his da called it. Man, dear, but your mother’s an awful woman for acting the jinnet,’ he’d say.