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wench

[wench] / wɛntʃ /


NOUN
female servant
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“You definitely don’t feel like a device or a prop and you don’t feel like the sexy wench or the mother,” said Olivia Cooke, who plays the adult Alicent Hightower, longtime friend to Rhaenyra.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 18, 2022

It isn’t really fair to be an unpleasant wench all the time, just because I’m mad that I didn’t spend enough time writing, so … yeah, that poem.

From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2021

“The word wench is definitely not something that medieval people would use for a woman, especially in public, because that was a really insulting thing to call her,” Mitchell said.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2018

Other changes have elicited fewer complaints than the deleted wench auction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2018

Grover and I sat in the pickup bed, leaning against the tow wench.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan

Because the funny thing about the witch trials is this: it wasn’t, really, those hysterical little girls and so-called temptress wenches who did all this damage to America’s soul.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 30, 2015

Then it’s off to the ocean, where the crew will test her systems in deep saltwater, including the sonar and over-the-side gear, like wenches and cranes.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 22, 2014

“It was really important to us that if we were going to explore this world, gender had to be a part of that, well beyond just stock wenches and the occasional cross-dressing pirate,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2014

The show kicked off with an agrarian fantasia featuring rustic wenches tossing cider-apples at each other and children skipping round maypoles.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2012

Some can speak, And call the heavens to record, when their fancy, Mere planet-struck, has fix'd their influence On various objects: this deludes poor wenches, And makes them melt like ceruse!

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley

Commissioned at 14, James Wolfe had earned a reputation as a priggish martinet who scorned wining and wenching but relished the meanest chores in his scramble for rank.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare's farce in which wenching Falstaff involves himself in domestic infelicity and intrigue, will tour 30 weeks.

From Time Magazine Archive




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