wench
noun/wentʃ/
/wentʃ/
(old use or humorous)- a young womanWord OriginMiddle English: abbreviation of obsolete wenchel ‘child, servant, prostitute’; perhaps related to Old English wancol ‘unsteady, inconstant’.
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