wench

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A girl or young woman, especially a buxom or lively one. archaic,dialectal,humorous,offensive,possibly
    — Jane played the role of a wench in an Elizabethan comedy.
    The New Arcadia
  2. A girl or young woman, especially a buxom or lively one.; A girl or young woman of a lower class. archaic,dialectal,humorous,offensive,possibly
    — 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.
  3. Used as a term of endearment for a female person, especially a wife, daughter, or girlfriend: darling, sweetheart. archaic,dialectal
    — 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: [...]
  4. A woman servant; a maidservant. archaic
    — 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.
  5. A promiscuous woman; a mistress (“other woman in an extramarital relationship”). archaic
    — 2 [Friar Bernardine]. Thou haſt committed— / Bar[abas]. Fornication? but that was in another Country; And beſides, the Wench is dead.
  6. A prostitute. archaic
  7. A black woman (of any age), especially if in a condition of servitude. US,archaic,historical
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To frequent prostitutes; to whore; also, to womanize. archaic,humorous,intransitive
    — This is ſure ſome hide-bound ſtudent, that proportions his expence by his penſion; and wencheth at Tottenham court for ſtewed prunes and cheeſcakes.
  2. To act as a wench. archaic,intransitive
    — λαικάζω (laikázō), to wench

词形变化

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词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
The noun is derived from Middle English wench, wenche (“female baby; girl (especially unmarried); maiden, young woman; bondwoman; serving maid; beloved, sweetheart; concubine, mistress; harlot, prostitute”) [and other forms], a shortened form of Middle English wenchel (“girl; maiden; child”), from Old English wenċel, winċel (“child; servant; slave”), from Proto-Germanic *wankilą, from Proto-Germanic *wankijaną (“to sway; waver”). The English word is cognate with Old High German wenken (“to waver; to give way, yield”), wankōn (“to totter”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
词源 2
The noun is derived from Middle English wench, wenche (“female baby; girl (especially unmarried); maiden, young woman; bondwoman; serving maid; beloved, sweetheart; concubine, mistress; harlot, prostitute”) [and other forms], a shortened form of Middle English wenchel (“girl; maiden; child”), from Old English wenċel, winċel (“child; servant; slave”), from Proto-Germanic *wankilą, from Proto-Germanic *wankijaną (“to sway; waver”). The English word is cognate with Old High German wenken (“to waver; to give way, yield”), wankōn (“to totter”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
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