wench

• n. 少婦；鄉下姑娘
• vi. 通奸

來自PIE*weng,彎，轉，柔弱，詞源同weak,vetch。通常含貶義。

wench (n.)

late 13c., wenche "girl, young woman," especially if unmarried, also "female infant," shortened from wenchel "child," also in Middle English "girl, maiden," from Old English wencel, probably related to wancol "unsteady, fickle, weak," from Proto-Germanic *wankila- (cognates: Old Norse vakr "child, weak person," Old High German wanchal "fickle"), from PIE *weng- "to bend, curve" (see wink (v.)).

The wenche is nat dead, but slepith. [Wyclif, Matt. ix:24, c. 1380]

In Middle English occasionally with disparaging suggestion, and secondary sense of "concubine, strumpet" is attested by mid-14c. Also "serving-maid, bondwoman, young woman of a humble class" (late 14c.), a sense retained in the 19c. U.S. South in reference to slave women of any age. In Shakespeare's day a female flax-worker could be a flax-wench, flax-wife, or flax-woman.

wench (v.)

"to associate with common women," 1590s, from wench (n.). Related: Wenched; wencher; wenching.

1. Scarlett dropped Prissy's arm and the wench sank whimpering to the steps.

思嘉放開百裏茜的胳臂,這女孩便嗚嗚咽咽地在樓梯上坐下了.

來自飄（部分）

2. Bought her and her little wench, Prissy.

買了她和她的小女兒百裏茜.

來自飄（部分）

3. How can you know, wench? Facts bear strong against him.

你怎麽會知道呢, 姑娘? 事實證明對他非常不利.

來自辭典例句

4. Where is that simple - minded little wench?

那個傻小娼婦哪裏去了?

來自辭典例句

5. She was no sooner gone but comes a wench and a child, puffing and sweating.

她剛一走開,立刻就來了一個姑娘同一個小孩, 喘著氣,流著汗.

來自辭典例句