creeping-jenny love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Moneywort or herb-twopence, Lysimachia nummularia.
  • noun Same as creeping-bur.

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Examples

  • And he stuck flowers in the hair of his own body, and wound a bit of creeping-jenny round his penis, and stuck a single bell of a hyacinth in his navel.

    Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

  • But Connie, walking behind, had watched the wheels jolt over the wood-ruff and the bugle, and squash the little yellow cups of the creeping-jenny.

    Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

  • Miles and miles and miles of them, and not a green thing to be seen except the cabbages in the greengrocers 'shops, and here and there some poor trails of creeping-jenny drooping from a dirty window-sill.

    Harding's Luck Edith 1909

  • "The cocker spannel has got rather a persevering bark," said Dickie, looking up at the creeping-jenny in the window-boxes.

    Harding's Luck Edith 1909

  • No flowers would grow in the garden, now trampled hard by the indiarubber-soled feet of many dogs; but Dickie did his best with window-boxes, and every window was underlined by a bright dash of colour – creeping-jenny, Brompton stocks, stone-crop, and late tulips, and all bought from the barrows in the High Street, made a brave show.

    Harding's Luck Edith 1909

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