Jeans... American? or ITALIAN??????

(home sick and very bored)

As we were doing my laundry (correction, Armida the laundry-Nazi stealing my clothes from me as I cry and beg at her feet, clinging to the often empty promise that I'll see them again within a month), she asks, do you know what 'jeans' means?

Ummmmm... it's an AMERICAN WORD. Der.