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Kick 'em Jenny
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English
Etymology
Applied to the volcano after it erupted in the 1930s; the name was previously used for the small islet nearby (now called Diamond Rock) and the waters around it, where the volcano is located, perhaps in reference to their roughness.
Proper noun
Kick 'em Jenny
An active submarine en volcano on the Caribbean Sea floor, located 8 km (5 mi) north of the island of en Grenada, or the en strait where it lies.
en The Nautical Magazine 10 601 1841 Even then, if she cannot lie S.E.b.S. at least, her reaching them will be very doubtful, and her best way will be to go through the passage between Kick-'em-Jenny and Carriacou, in order to weather Grenada before she gets into the strong lee current which prevails between that island and Trinidad, and renders it very difficult for ships to fetch Point Saline from the Bocas. https://books.google.com/books?id=GzNKZC3SckkC&dq=%22fetch%20Point%20Saline%20from%20the%22&pg=PA601#v=onepage&q=%22fetch%20Point%20Saline%20from%20the%22&f=false
en Encyclopedia of Islands 34 Rosemary G. Gillespie 2009 The 12 submarine eruptions from Kick 'em Jenny are believed to have been dominantly explosive, although in at least one case a lava dome was extruded. https://books.google.com/books?id=g9ZogGs_fz8C&lpg=PA34&dq=%22Kick%20'em%20Jenny%22&pg=PA34#v=onepage&q=%22Kick%20'em%20Jenny%22&f=false
en Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones 33 Carole Boyce Davies 2013 On the way, I learn from a feisty Jamaican writer that the turbulence one experiences, and to which Marshall gives epic meaning, is actually the result of volcanic action that is producing another island (affectionately called “Kick 'em Jenny”). https://books.google.com/books?id=nLgPBAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA33&dq=%22Kick%20'em%20Jenny%22&pg=PA33#v=onepage&q=%22Kick%20'em%20Jenny%22&f=false
Further reading
en Volcanoes