OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 11317

wench

/wɛnt͡ʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ir de putas
To frequent prostitutes; to whore; also, to womanize.
I know a clergyman who, having enjoyed for several years the world's good opinion, was turned off, through a ridiculous pique, by a young nobleman to whom he was preceptor. […] He…
This Dalgarno does not drink so much, or swear so much, as his father; but he wenches, Geordie, and he breaks his word and oath baith.
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