Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A harmless cyst, especially on the scalp or face, containing the fatty secretion of a sebaceous gland.
- n. Variant of wynn.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A runic symbol used in Anglo-Saxon up to about 1300 a.d. to represent the w-sound.
- n. A current silver coin of Korea, equivalent to 40 United States cents.
- n. A circumscribed benign tumor of moderate size, occurring on any part of the body, but especially on the scalp, consisting of a well-defined sac inclosing sebaceous matter.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) An indolent, encysted tumor of the skin; especially, a sebaceous cyst.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked
Etymologies
- From Old English wynn (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English; see wen-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But it getz betur wen happikat’s happi iz rezzurek….rezareq….resoreq…..wen it kumz bak an Seelin Kat maekz teh cheezburgrz rayn frum teh skai.”
ceeling cat did send down - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Hunter on Dec 4, 2008 wen is this movie goin to be released?”
It's Official - School of Rock 2: America Rocks Moving Forward! « FirstShowing.net
“Pleez tu wait tu make dem fone calls wen nawt in bafrums.”
No room for you in our spa - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“July 16, 2008 at 5:23 pm oh sounz like a wunnerful kitteh an ai likes her name wen da mamakitty wuz liddel ai named her LeMieux (like the hockey player) but after her had her bebbehs (an it wuzznt tew long) den her became teh mamakitty…..”
Ohaiena. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“i say, wen is it shele-ing, haba!! mo'fe je ricey jor o, lolllll”
“The udder day ai swear ai herd my GPS flip a coin wen ai stawped at uh 3-way intersekshun wif “teh hood” toward teh left, adn an outdoor Jonas Bros concert being held toward teh rite.”
u can’t - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“June 16, 2009 at 5:37 pm an ai hazznt been round tew muchly……….ai iz gilty ob playin on facebook ai got 2 year old rescue kitty after mamakitty went ober teh bridge in january an jus a week ago got mai 3 munf old somali kitteh, cayenne. if yew click on mai name wen yew gets a change ai haz a cuppla short bideos of her on mai profyle”
pizza wuz hot an - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Ai actually izent Czech…mah brudders gav meh teh nickname wen ai wuz 2 young 2 complain.”
“But den agin, wen a kat is sick it usally hieds it.”
I not eat kitteh toys no moar… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“August 2, 2008 at 1:50 pm mai favrit is to kall tehre name wen tehyre chasin teh invisibull monsters down teh halls and thru teh howse. tehn tehy get distrackted and run into teh wallz… ore chares… or tehmselves…”
K, nao tie it to the other shoo - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wen’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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wallace
Remington, Windsor, prorector, wen, aver, mottle, seltzer, tepee, lapidary, effete, sotto, presbyopia and 355 more...
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phrontistery-w
from phrontistery.info
wack, wadmal, waftage, wafture, wagonette, wagtail, wainage, wainscot, wair, waits, wakerife, waldflute and 282 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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Things that smell better than they taste
See also Things that taste better than they smell.
coffee, gasoline, shampoo, petrol, paint, cut grass, baby, hair, mudflats, bicycle, coal, naphtha and 36 more...
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Unusual words for Words With Friends
A list of words that WWF recognizes as valid - most are unusual words; some are simply high-scoring.
botel, slipe, jeu, chub, chubs, cote, mure, tittle, dev, loo, hoke, helo and 357 more...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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Jamaican Glossary
The liner notes that accompany Papa San's dancehall album God & i include this thoughtful list of Jamaican-to-American translations, to aid in understanding what the heck he's saying in each song.
yah, yeh, yuy, woulda, wort, wid, wi, wes', wen, whey, wau, wanda and 151 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words to remember from DFW's "Infinite Jest"
wen, matriculation, circumflex, lapidary, effete, sotto, hypertrophy, presbyopic, ideogram, pinion, parquet, nelson and 152 more...
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The Innocents Abroad
Words rounded up while reading The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain.
rakish, excursionist, bowelless, pilgrimizing, melodeon, woebegone, abaft, sextant, veriest, behindhand, stanchion, avast and 188 more...
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words
diplopic, dolorous, farrago, surety, scuttlebutt, Arabesque, infarct, neurasthenia, lambent, expurge, univocal, simper and 395 more...
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DYSLEXIC'S DREAD
Words That Make Sense in Reverse Too! Bad news for a dyslexic, 'cause s/he's got no clue if s/he read the word correctly or not, as opposed to a palindrome (i.e., no mistake possible, cf. "Dyslexic...
tool, lever, nap, pool, leer, leek, desserts, strop, doom, ukiah, yaws, ward and 213 more...
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Willieb's Words
pusillanimous, exigible, extraneous, contemptible, banal, generic, secular, canard, acerbic, erudite, versus, atheist and 192 more...
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hagendas 2008
mise-en-scene, occultation, lodestone, obdurate, remontoire, filigree, insensate, carapace, vicissitude, verdigris, indivuation, intercalate and 224 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for wen.
crysb This is a word that sounds lovely before you learn its meaning. Aug 9, 2009
oroboros New in reverse. Nov 2, 2007