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Synonyms for wench

Grammar : Noun
Spell : wench
Phonetic Transcription : wɛntʃ

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Définition of wench

Origin :
  • late 13c., wenche "girl or young woman," shortened from wenchel "child" (12c.), from Old English wencel, probably related to wancol "unsteady, fickle, weak," and cognate with Old Norse vakr "child, weak person," Old High German wanchal "fickle." The word degenerated through being used in reference to servant girls, and by mid-14c. was being used in a sense of "woman of loose morals, mistress."
  • The wenche is nat dead, but slepith. [Wyclif, Matt. ix:24, c.1380]
  • noun loose woman
Example sentences :
  • And there was the wench too—he had fairly forgotten her name.
  • Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • Hero is a "wench o' the Bankside," and Leander swims across the Thames to her.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • The wench came up soon after, all aghast, with a Laud, Miss!
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • And so this wench is to stock the parish with beauties, I hope.
  • Extract from : « Joseph Andrews, Vol. 2 » by Henry Fielding
  • I am secure in one of the wench's qualities however—she is not to be corrupted.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • A wench, man, and as tight a little craft as ever sailed into the port of wedlock.'
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The wench cannot know that I am ruined or her heart would speedily be restored.
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • He has the smooth cheeks o' a wench, an' limbs like Goliath o' Gath.
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • There's enough plunder in the town to tempt the lads, and there's the wench for you.
  • Extract from : « Captain Blood » by Rafael Sabatini
  • Lucagnolo had drought some wench whom he believed to be Madonna Paola.
  • Extract from : « The Shame of Motley » by Raphael Sabatini

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