Green’s Dictionary of Slang

jenny lee n.

also jenny lea
[rhy. sl.; later uses f. Baroness Lee of Asheridge (1904–88), Scottish Labour politician]

1. a flea.

[UK]G.R. Sims ‘Tottie’ Dagonet Ditties 127: Then a bow-wow by her side, / Who till then had stood and tried / A ‘Jenny Lee’ to banish, / Which was on his ‘Jonah’s whale,’ / Gave a hydrophobic bark.
[UK]J. Manchon Le Slang.
[UK]‘P.P.’ Rhy. Sl. 7: Fleas – Jenny Lees.
[UK]J. Franklyn Dict. of Rhy. Sl.
[UK]B. Kirkpatrick Wicked Cockney Rhy. Sl.

2. a key.

[UK]‘P.P.’ Rhy. Sl. 5: Put yer Chalk Farm under the Rory O’Moore and find the Jenny Lee.
[UK]J. Franklyn Dict. of Rhy. Sl.
[UK]S.T. Kendall Up the Frog 20: ’E gets aht a Jennie Lee an’ in we goes into this ’ere birch broom.
[UK]B. Kirkpatrick Wicked Cockney Rhy. Sl.

3. tea.

[UK]‘P.P.’ Rhy. Sl. 13: Tea – Jenny Lea.
[Aus]West. Australian (Perth) 11 Mar. 22/6: A man asks his mate to th Jenny Lee, the tea.
[UK]J. Franklyn Dict. of Rhy. Sl.
[UK]B. Kirkpatrick Wicked Cockney Rhy. Sl.