Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A harmless cyst, especially on the scalp or face, containing the fatty secretion of a sebaceous gland.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A current silver coin of Korea, equivalent to 40 United States cents.
- noun 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.
- noun A runic symbol used in Anglo-Saxon up to about 1300
a.d. to represent the w-sound.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) An indolent, encysted tumor of the skin; especially, a sebaceous cyst.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a runic letter later replaced by w
- noun a
cyst on theskin
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word wen.
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? 2008
-
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 2008
-
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? 2008
-
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? 2008
-
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? 2010
-
Ai actually izent Czech…mah brudders gav meh teh nickname wen ai wuz 2 young 2 complain.
-
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? 2009
-
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? 2008
-
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? 2008
oroboros commented on the word wen
New in reverse.
November 2, 2007
crysb commented on the word wen
This is a word that sounds lovely before you learn its meaning.
August 9, 2009
grandpa27 commented on the word wen
Wen, the rune that became in the alphabet double-u which is actually double-v before v's and u's switched places in the English alphabet. This raises other questions. Linguistics anyone?
November 2, 2013
ruzuzu commented on the word wen
"In 2015, our team published a pilot study on a 1,000-year old recipe called Bald’s eyesalve from “Bald’s Leechbook,” an Old English medical text. The eyesalve was to be used against a “wen,” which may be translated as a sty, or an infection of the eyelash follicle."
-- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/getting-medieval-on-bacteria-ancient-books-may-point-to-new-antibiotics/
April 19, 2017