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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

“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

Bosley Crowther of The Times called her character “a selfish, ambitious, fickle wench whose tender and lovable qualities might be compared to those of a threshing machine.”

From New York Times Jul. 19, 2017

"I'd not have thought it, by that wench on the waterfront."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

He samples Pee-wee Herman, and goes out of his way to say "gluteus maximus" and "wenches" instead of ruder, more common rapper words.

From Seattle Times Nov. 29, 2012

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

Just at the entrance of the lane, the time being about two in the morning, he met one of his servant wenches hurrying in the direction whence he had come.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle

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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