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tench
English
Etymology
From Middle English tenche, from Old French tenche, from Late Latin tinca.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?nt??/
- Rhymes: -?nt?
Noun
tench (plural tench or tenches)
- A species of freshwater game fish, Tinca tinca.
Translations
Further reading
- tench at OneLook Dictionary Search
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wench
English
Etymology
The noun is derived from Middle English wench, wenche (“female baby; girl (especially unmarried); maiden, young woman; bondwoman; serving maid; beloved, sweetheart; concubine, mistress; harlot, prostitute”) [and other forms], a shortened form of Middle English wenchel (“girl; maiden; child”), from Old English wen?el, win?el (“child; servant; slave”), from Proto-Germanic *wankil?, from Proto-Germanic *wankijan? (“to sway; waver”). The English word is cognate with Old High German wenken (“to waver; to give way, yield”), wank?n (“to totter”).
The verb and adjective are derived from the noun.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /w?nt?/
- Rhymes: -?nt?
Noun
wench (plural wenches)
- (archaic, now dialectal or humorous, possibly offensive) A girl or young woman, especially a buxom or lively one.
- (specifically) A girl or young woman of a lower class.
- (specifically) A girl or young woman of a lower class.
- (archaic or dialectal) Used as a term of endearment for a female person, especially a wife, daughter, or girlfriend: darling, sweetheart.
- (archaic) A woman servant; a maidservant.
- (archaic) A promiscuous woman; a mistress (“other woman in an extramarital relationship”).
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:promiscuous woman, Thesaurus:mistress
- (archaic) A prostitute.
- (US, archaic or historical) A black woman (of any age), especially if in a condition of servitude.
- Synonym: (dated, literary, now offensive) negress
Derived terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: wenke
Translations
Verb
wench (third-person singular simple present wenches, present participle wenching, simple past and past participle wenched)
- (intransitive, archaic, now humorous) To frequent prostitutes; to whore; also, to womanize.
Conjugation
Derived terms
- wencher
Translations
References
Anagrams
- chewn
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