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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