wench

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  1. noun A young woman or girl, especially a peasant girl.
  2. noun A woman servant.
  3. noun A wanton woman.

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  1. Middle English, short for wenchel, child, from Old English wencel.

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  1. from Middle English wenche, shortened form of wenchel, orig. a child, prob. from Anglo-Saxon *wencel, a child, represented by the once occurring winclo, plural, children, prob. for *wencelu, neuter plural of the adjective wencel, wencele, weak (found once, in dative plural wencelum, applied to widows), variant of wancol, woncol, unstable, later English wankle: see wankle. The Anglo-Saxon wencle, a wench, a daughter, given by Somner, is an error based upon the above forms.
  2. from wench, n.
 

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