Definitions for wenches

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Spelling: [wench]
IPA: /wɛntʃ/

Wenches is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in wenches (ceehnsw).

Definitions for wenches

noun

  1. a country lass or working girl:
  2. Usually Facetious. a girl or young woman.
  3. Archaic. a strumpet.

verb (used without object)

  1. to associate, especially habitually, with promiscuous women.

Origin of wenches

1250-1300; Middle English, back formation from wenchel, Old English wencel child, akin to wancol tottering, said of a child learning to walk; akin to German wankeln to totter

Examples for wenches

I am secure in one of the wench's qualities however—she is not to be corrupted.

Lucagnolo had drought some wench whom he believed to be Madonna Paola.

The wench cannot know that I am ruined or her heart would speedily be restored.

And so this wench is to stock the parish with beauties, I hope.

There's enough plunder in the town to tempt the lads, and there's the wench for you.

Hero is a "wench o' the Bankside," and Leander swims across the Thames to her.

He has the smooth cheeks o' a wench, an' limbs like Goliath o' Gath.

The wench came up soon after, all aghast, with a Laud, Miss!

A wench, man, and as tight a little craft as ever sailed into the port of wedlock.'

And there was the wench too—he had fairly forgotten her name.

Word Value for wenches
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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