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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, especially habitually, with promiscuous women.
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Wenching
is always a great word to know.
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English, back formation from wenchel, Old English wencel child, akin to wancol tottering, said of a child learning to walk; akin to German wankeln to totter
1250–1300; Middle English, back formation from wenchel, Old English wencel child, akin to wancol tottering, said of a child learning to walk; akin to German wankeln to totter
Related forms
wench·er, noun
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Word Origin & History
wench
late 13c., 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 mid-14c.
EXPANDwas being used in a sense of "woman of loose morals, mistress." The verb meaning "to associate with common women" is from 1590s.
COLLAPSE
"The wenche is nat dead, but slepith." [Wyclif, Matt. ix.24, c.1380]
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