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▪ I. wenching, vbl. n.|ˈwɛnʃɪŋ|
[f. wench v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb: also attrib.
1601Holland Pliny xxxv. x. II. 545 Given he was exceedingly to wenching. c1620Fletcher False One iv. ii, You were told what this same whorson wenching long agoe would come to. 1672Dryden Assignation ii. i, Love alone, is either plain wenching, where every Curtizan is your Mistriss,..or else,..plain whining after one Woman. 1712Addison Spect. No. 383 ⁋5 [They asked] whether he was not ashamed to go a Wenching at his Years? 1775Sheridan St. Patrick's Day ii. i, Between ourselves, he is most confoundedly given to wenching. 1811Byron Hints fr. Hor. 706 The youth who trains..Must bear privations..Be call'd to labour when he thinks to dine, And, harder still, leave wenching and his wine. 1873L. O. Pike Hist. Crime I. 93 In reality the Priest took to Money-getting and Wenching.
attrib.1590Tarlton's Newes Purgatorie 5 And some I can tell you haue come thither for wenching matters. 1592Def. Conny catching in Greene's Wks. (Grosart) XI. 62, I omit Miles the Millers coossenage for wenching affaires. 1607Dekker & Webster Northw. Hoe iv. i. E 3 b, I hope you thinke my wenching daies are past.
▪ II. ˈwenching, ppl. a.
[f. wench v. + -ing2.]
That habitually associates with common women.
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. v. iv. 35 Whats become of the wenching rogues? 1719D'Urfey Pills V. 268 To Wenching Smell-smocks give I these. 1913Sat. Rev. 11 Oct. Suppl. p. iv/1 Fox was himself a gambling, drinking, wenching..rascal. |