| Definitions | noun
- Japanese-influenced English, especially when nonstandard or ungrammatical.
- 1997, James W. Rinehart, Christopher Huxley & David Robertson, Just Another Car Factory?: Lean Production and Its Discontents
- :That this company is half Japanese-owned is obvious. Japanese words spelled out in English (what someone referred to as "") are used and posted throughout the plant.
- 1998, Robert Brenner & Gregory Capelo, VCR Troubleshooting & Repair
- :Since many VCRs are designed and built in Japan, a mixture of Japanese-to-English writing style sometimes called "Japanenglish" or "" is often found in much documentation. This makes some of the expressions difficult to understand.
- 1999, http://www.daninjapan.com/jenglish/index.html Dan in Japan: jenglish (website)
- :What is (pronounced jing-lish)? It's all of the funny English in Japan that you see on signs, books, T-shirts, vending machines... it's everywhere. ... it doesn't quite have that "native English speaker" nuance.
- 2001, Nancy Brown Diggs, Looking Beyond the Mask: When American Women Marry Japanese Men
- :She also thinks that "being so close to the culture has ruined my English. I have had to choose easier words, shorter sentences, ... We call it "Jinglish," Japanese-English."
Etymology: (blend, Japanese, English); compare Singlish, Yinglish, etc.
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