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Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

wench

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Source Word

wench

IPA(Pronunciation)

/wɛnt͡ʃ/

archaic offensive possibly specifically dialectal US

(archaic, now dialectal or humorous, possibly offensive) A girl or young woman, especially a buxom or lively one. / (specifically) A girl or young woman of a lower class.

Japanese Meaning

（古語・方言的、またはユーモラスで攻撃的と捉えられる場合もある）若い女性、特に豊満で活発な女性 / 下層階級に属する若い女性

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The old sailor teased the lively wench who danced at the tavern's edge.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

年老いた船乗りは、居酒屋の片隅で踊っていた陽気な若い女性をからかった。

Sense（1）

(archaic, now dialectal or humorous, possibly offensive) A girl or young woman, especially a buxom or lively one.

Sense（2）

(specifically) A girl or young woman of a lower class.

The woman is a brazen, hard-looking wench, a female pedlar, who hawks needles, thread, cheap looking-glasses, pious pictures, almanacs, hair-pins, ballads, of the most humble pattern, through the country.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（3）

When I am dead, good Wench,

Let me be vs'd with Honor; ſtrew me ouer

With Maiden Flowers, that all the world may know

I was a chaſte Wife, to my Graue: …

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（4）

(archaic) A woman servant; a maidservant.

When they had kyndled a fyre in the myddes of the palys

and were sett doune to gedder

Peter alsoo sate doune amonge them. And won off the wenches

as he sate

beholde him by the light and sett goode eyesight on him

and sayde: This same was also with hym. Then he denyed hym sayinge: Woman I knowe hym nott.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（5）

(archaic) A promiscuous woman; a mistress (“other woman in an extramarital relationship”).

Sense（6）

(archaic) A prostitute.

Sense（7）

(US, archaic or historical) A black woman (of any age), especially if in a condition of servitude.

Nancy Basset, 28, likely wench, mulatto

Proved to be free.

Certified free as per General Birch Certificate.

Patience Jackson, 23, very likely wench, mulatto

Says she was born free Rhode Island.

Certified free as per General Birch Certificate.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

wenches

（ plural ）

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