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wench

[wench]
–noun
1. a country lass or working girl: The milkmaid was a healthy wench.
2. Usually Facetious. a girl or young woman.
3. Archaic. a strumpet.
–verb (used without object)
4. to associate, esp. habitually, with promiscuous women.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME, back formation from wenchel, OE wencel child, akin to wancol tottering, said of a child learning to walk; akin to G wankeln to totter


wencher, noun
wench   (wěnch)   
n.  
  1. A young woman or girl, especially a peasant girl.
  2. A woman servant.
  3. A wanton woman.
intr.v.   wenched, wench·ing, wench·es
To consort or engage in sex with wanton women. Used of a man.

[Middle English, short for wenchel, child, from Old English wencel.]
wench'er n.
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