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Jenkins

/ˈd͡ʒɛŋkɪnz/ noun C2
  1. A flatterer or sycophant. (colloquial, dated) · the Jenkins employed by a newspaper· October 1869, George William Curtis, Civil-Service Reform rouse the country for Jones and Justice or Jenkins and the Rights of Man

Plural Jenkinses

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There was a girl at the asylum whose name was Hepzibah Jenkins, but I always imagined her as Rosalia DeVere.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 25 · C1

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