wench
IPA: wˈɛntʃ
noun
- (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.
- (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”).
- (archaic) A prostitute.
- (US, archaic or historical) A black woman (of any age), especially if in a condition of servitude.
verb
- (intransitive, archaic, now humorous) To frequent prostitutes; to whore; also, to womanize.
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Examples of "wench" in Sentences
- Cow-eyed, you called the wench; but cows have horns,
- If you don't mind being called a wench it is fine with me.
- Steph, will you call the wench and plan something, we are so hermitish these days.
- And after all a wench is a commonish sort of a object, and even the wench the lad's in love with is
- Bozo The Neoclown says: president obama really expects the teabagging tards to be thankful when this wench is their leader?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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