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WENCH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Informal terms for a (young) woman
Synonyms:
bird; chick; dame; doll; skirt; wench
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wench" is a kind of...):
fille; girl; miss; missy; young lady; young woman (a young female)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they wench ... he / she / it wenches
Past simple: wenched
Past participle: wenched
-ing form: wenching
Sense 1
Meaning:
Frequent prostitutes
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "wench" is one way to...):
fornicate (have sex without being married)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
wencher (someone who patronizes prostitutes)
Context examples:
We made great havoc in Touraine, until we came into Romorantin, where I chanced upon a gold chain and two bracelets of jasper, which were stolen from me the same day by a black-eyed wench from the Ardennes.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“By the three kings!” cried one, “here is an old dotard shrew to have so goodly a crutch! Use the leg that God hath given you, man, and do not bear so heavily upon the wench.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
