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wench

  [wench]
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–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

Related forms:
wencher, noun
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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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Word Origin & History

wench 
c.1290 wenche "girl or young woman," shortened from wenchel "child" (12c.), from O.E. wencel, probably related to wancol "unsteady, fickle, weak," and cognate with O.N. vakr "child, weak person," O.H.G. wanchal "fickle." The word degenerated through being used in ref. to servant girls, and by 1362 was being used in a sense of "woman of loose morals, mistress." The verb meaning "to associate with common women" is from 1599.
"The wenche is nat dead, but slepith." [Wyclif, Matt. ix.24, c.1380]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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