wench

Meaning

1. A girl or young woman, especially a buxom or lively one.
2. A girl or young woman, especially a buxom or lively one.
3. Used as a term of endearment for a female person, especially a wife, daughter, or girlfriend: darling, sweetheart.
4. A woman servant; a maidservant.
5. A promiscuous woman; a mistress (“other woman in an extramarital relationship”).
6. A prostitute.
7. A black woman (of any age), especially if in a condition of servitude.

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damozel

go whoring

have sex with a prostitute

servant girl

visit prostitutes

blowze

servant maid

young woman

damoiselle

prostitute whore

damosel

Gill

go a wench

go gallivanting

fille

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wɛnt͡ʃ/

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 wenċel, winċel (“child; servant; slave”), from Proto-Germanic *wankilą, from Proto-Germanic *wankijaną (“to sway; waver”). The English word is cognate with Old High German wenken (“to waver; to give way, yield”), wankōn (“to totter”). The verb and adjective are derived from the noun.

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