Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A young woman or girl.
- noun A woman servant.
- noun A promiscuous woman or a prostitute.
- intransitive verb To consort with promiscuous women. Used of a man.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To consort with strumpets.
- noun An obsolete form of
winch for wince. - noun l. A child (of either sex).
- noun A female child; a girl; a maid or damsel; a young woman in general.
- noun Specifically
- noun A girl or young woman of a humble order or class; especially, a maidservant; a working-girl.
- noun A lewd or immodest woman; a mistress; a concubine; a strumpet.
- noun A colored woman of any age; a negress or mulattress, especially one in service.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To frequent the company of wenches, or women of ill fame.
- noun A young woman; a girl; a maiden.
- noun A low, vicious young woman; a drab; a strumpet.
- noun Archaic, U. S. A colored woman; a negress.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A young
woman , especially aservant . - noun archaic A
promiscuous woman. - verb intransitive To
frequent prostitutes ; towomanize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun informal terms for a (young) woman
- verb frequent prostitutes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Bozo The Neoclown says: president obama really expects the teabagging tards to be thankful when this wench is their leader?
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Steph, will you call the wench and plan something, we are so hermitish these days.
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Steph, will you call the wench and plan something, we are so hermitish these days.
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Cow-eyed, you called the wench; but cows have horns,
Krindlesyke Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 1920
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If you don't mind being called a wench it is fine with me.
New Museum rerun EAGEAGEAG 2009
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I was gravely instructing Dorcas above stairs, and wondering what would be the subject of the conversation to which the wench was to be a witness, when these outcries reached my ears.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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One called a wench, his shovel; she called him, her peal: one named his, my slipper; and she, my foot: another, my boot; she, my shasoon.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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One called a wench, his shovel; she called him, her peal: one named his, my slipper; and she, my foot: another, my boot; she, my shasoon.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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And after all a wench is a commonish sort of a object, and even the wench the lad's in love with is
Aunt Rachel David Christie Murray
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So I got on to one of the ponies and led the others down to the spring near camp to water them while the wench was a getting breakfast, and some o 'the rest o' the outfit was a fixing the saddles and greasing the wagon.
The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway Henry Inman 1868
yarb commented on the word wench
We have all our weak side, as you well know. Tell me where Signor de Santillane is fallible. Is he fond of play? does he wench? On what lay are his snug little vices?
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 9 ch. 1
October 7, 2008