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noun
Wench  n.  
1.
A young woman; a girl; a maiden. "Lord and lady, groom and wench." "That they may send again My most sweet wench, and gifts to boot." "He was received by the daughter of the house, a pretty, buxom, blue-eyed little wench."
2.
A low, vicious young woman; a drab; a strumpet. "She shall be called his wench or his leman." "It is not a digression to talk of bawds in a discourse upon wenches."
3.
A colored woman; a negress. (Archaic, U. S.)


verb
Wench  v. i.  (past & past part. wenched; pres. part. wenching)  To frequent the company of wenches, or women of ill fame.





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"Wench" Quotes from Famous Books



... but you know I hope soon to see you lay by all your pretty Papagena feathers. All your satins and ermines must give place to a coarse apron then. You will be only applauded by my hungry stomach, called out before the cook-wench, and saluted with 'da capo' when you kiss your Carl. It is very shocking, I know. What will my own pearl say to be dissolved in the sour vinegar of domestic life, and swallowed by a ...
— The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 • Rupert Hughes
... apply the whip to him. There are gradations in conduct; there is morality,—decency,—propriety. None of these should be violated by a bishop. A bishop should not go to a house where he may meet a young fellow leading out a wench.' BOSWELL. 'But, Sir, every tavern does not admit women.' JOHNSON. 'Depend upon it, Sir, any tavern will admit a well-drest man and a well-drest woman; they will not perhaps admit a woman whom they see every night walking by their ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 4 (of 6) • Boswell
... was a case for dynamite. Why, she was a perfect ass; and yet the king and his knights had listened to her as if she had been a leaf out of the gospel. It kind of sizes up the whole party. And think of the simple ways of this court: this wandering wench hadn't any more trouble to get access to the king in his palace than she would have had to get into the poorhouse in my day and country. In fact, he was glad to see her, glad to hear her tale; with that adventure of hers ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... there's scarce a wench in the county who would not go down on her knees for such a chance. See what Madam Duckworth would say ...
— Love and Life • Charlotte M. Yonge
... The occasional hurrying roar of machinery seemed to make Lawton nervous, for he said apprehensively that he feared someone was rushing the growler. In the corridor outside the Doctor's quarters a group of stewardesses were violently altercating, and Lawton remarked that a wench can make almost as much noise as a winch. On the whole, however, he admired the ship greatly, and was taken with the club's plans for going cruising. He said he felt safer after noting that the lifeboats were guaranteed to hold forty persons ...
— Plum Pudding - Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned • Christopher Morley


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