wench

«wench» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: girl — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

girl

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A girl or young woman, often a servant or a country girl. tree →

how it differs from today

Today "wench" is an old word and can sound rude; in these texts it simply means a girl.

examples

• "Who knows whence the wench comes?" said she. (Grimm's Fairy Stories) tree →
• Thereupon the King’s son recognised the cinder wench; so he took both the girls with him, and set out. (The Red Fairy Book) tree →
• ‘The cinder wench is not here,’ said the Prince at last; ‘go and fetch her, and let her try on the things.’ (The Red Fairy Book) tree →

primary record

wench

tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 12 (Torah 0, tales 12, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.4 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «wench» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.