Definitions for jitney

jitney jit·ney

Spelling: [jit-nee]
IPA: /ˈdʒɪt ni/

Jitney is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in jitney (eijnty).

Definitions for jitney

noun

  1. a small bus or car following a regular route along which it picks up and discharges passengers, originally charging each passenger five cents.
  2. Older Slang. a nickel; five-cent piece.

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to carry or ride in a jitney.

Origin of jitney

1900-05, Americanism; of obscure origin; French jeton jetton is a phonetically implausible source

Examples for jitney

Dad says I have to be sixteen before I can have a license to drive a jitney.

By this time my confidence in the African jitney was somewhat shaken.

But we can probably catch a jitney or something from Wilkes-Barre.

It was a long ten-minute jitney ride from the railway station.

Been dotty about you ever since you took me for a jitney driver and tipped me a quarter.

He approached the spot where the girl had been left by the jitney driver.

And sometimes we go out on the beach and lie on the sand,—he takes me in his jitney.

"If he gets in the auto-stage, we might hire a jitney," suggested Fatty.

His face was as empty of expression, as unmelodramatic, as that of a jitney driver.

Mr. Gunn stopped his machine and came over to the other jitney.

Word Value for jitney
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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