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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A young woman or girl, especially a peasant girl.
  2. n. A woman servant.
  3. n. A wanton woman.
  4. v. To consort or engage in sex with wanton women. Used of a man.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. l. A child (of either sex).
  2. n. A female child; a girl; a maid or damsel; a young woman in general. [Wench had originally no depreciatory implication, and continued to be used in a respectful sense, especially as a familiar term, long after it had acquired such an implication in specific employment; and it is still commonly so used in provincial English, and sometimes archaically in literature.]
  3. n. Specifically.
  4. n. A girl or young woman of a humble order or class; especially, a maidservant; a working-girl.
  5. n. A lewd or immodest woman; a mistress; a concubine; a strumpet.
  6. n. A colored woman of any age; a negress or mulattress, especially one in service.
  7. To consort with strumpets.
  8. n. An obsolete form of winch for wince.

Wiktionary

  1. n. archaic A young woman, especially a servant.
  2. n. archaic A promiscuous woman.
  3. v. intransitive To frequent prostitutes; to womanize.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A young woman; a girl; a maiden.
  2. n. A low, vicious young woman; a drab; a strumpet.
  3. n. Archaic, U. S. A colored woman; a negress.
  4. v. To frequent the company of wenches, or women of ill fame.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. informal terms for a (young) woman
  2. v. frequent prostitutes

Etymologies

  1. Middle English wenche, short for wenchel child, from Old English wencel; akin to Old High German wankōn ("to totter") (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, short for wenchel, child, from Old English wencel. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (5)

Words with the same meaning

  1. girl
  1. maiden
  1. drab
  1. strumpet
  1. Negress

hypernyms (7)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. missy
  1. young woman
  1. girl
  1. fille
  1. young lady
  1. miss
  1. fornicate

same context (24)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. slut
  2. lass
  3. bitch
  4. hussy
  1. brat
  2. maid
  3. wretch
  4. rascal
  1. lad
  2. whore
  3. brute
  4. scamp
  1. knave
  2. damsel
  3. witch
  4. jade
  1. chap
  2. youngster
  3. beggar
  4. elf
  1. dame
  2. brunette
  3. hag
  4. Gal.

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. blowze
  2. jade
  3. mauther
  1. drazel
  2. doxy
  3. drab
  1. drabbish
  2. dell
  3. hussy
  1. trull
  2. skit
  3. bona roba
  1. drossel
  2. frow
  3. therne
  1. quean
  2. wenchless
  3. malkin
  1. slut

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  • yarb We have all our weak side, as you well know. Tell me where Signor de Santillane is fallible. Is he fond of play? does he wench? On what lay are his snug little vices?

    - Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 9 ch. 1 Oct 7, 2008

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