wenn.¹

Brit.

/wɛn/, U.S.

/wɛn/

Forms: Old English wænn, wenn, Middle English wean, Middle English, 1600s–1700s wenn, Middle English–1600s wenne, Middle English– wen.

Etymology: Old English wen(n, wæn(n = Dutch wen, West Flemish wan, apparently related to Middle Low German wene (1403), Low German wehne, wähne tumour, wart; the ultimate etymology is obscure.

Thesaurus »

†a. A lump or protuberance on the body, a knot, bunch, wart. Obsolete.

b. Pathology. A sebaceous cystic tumour under the skin, occurring chiefly on the head.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > [noun]

weeningc900

wenc1000

susposea1325

deeming1340

supposala1425

conjecturec1460

supposing1530

supposition1565

suppose1582

surmise1593

surmisal1641

putation1649

expectation1793

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > swelling > [noun] > a swelling or protuberance

ampereOE

kernelc1000

wenc1000

knot?c1225

swella1250

bulchc1300

bunchc1325

bolninga1340

botcha1387

bouge1398

nodusa1400

oedemaa1400

wax-kernel14..

knobc1405

nodule?a1425

more?c1425

bunnyc1440

papa1450

knurc1460

waxing kernel?c1460

lump?a1500

waxen-kernel1500

bump1533

puff1538

tumour?1541

swelling1542

elevation1543

enlarging1562

knub1563

pimple1582

ganglion1583

button1584

phyma1585

emphysema?1587

flesh-pimple1587

oedem?a1591

burgeon1597

wartle1598

hurtle1599

pough1601

wart1603

extumescence1611

hulch1611

peppernel1613

affusion1615

extumescency1684

jog1715

knibloch1780

tumefaction1802

hunch1803

income1808

intumescence1822

gibber1853

tumescence1859

whetstone1886

tumidity1897

Osler's node1920

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun] > cyst

wenc1000

crop1599

steatoma1599

hydatid1683

atheroma1706

cyst1731

sac1802

hygroma1813

galactocele1850

dacryops1857

ovule of Naboth1857

hydatid of Morgagni1858

thrombocyst1860

monocyst1869

cystoid1872

cystoma1876

sarcocyst1892

Baker's cyst1893

milk thrombus1895

sweat-cyst1898

tubulocystc1900

sweat vesicle1901

seroma1919

macrocyst1953

macrocyst1980

c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 34 Wiþ wenne on eagon genim þa holan cersan [etc.].

c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 46 Gif men synd wænnas gewunod on þæt heafod foran oððe on ða eagan.

c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 422/2 Impetigo, eagan wenn.

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 8 In doynge awey þat is to myche skyn: as wertis or wennys.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 522/1 Wenne, verucca,..gibbus.

?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 791/7 Hic gibbus, a wenne.

1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. ciij He that wolde haue slaine Prometheus, wounded his wenne with his swoorde, whereby he was healed of that disease.

1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 72 The seede of Darnell..consumeth wens, hard lumps, and such like excrescence in any part of the body.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §997 It would be tried, with Cornes and Wenns, and such other Excrescences.

1672 R. Wiseman Treat. Wounds ii. ii. 10 I saw the Bullet lye like a small Wen or Scrophul, thrusting out under the Skin.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 59. ¶4 Cicero, who was so call'd from the Founder of his Family, that was marked on the Nose with a little Wenn like a Vetch.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 290 Others..exposed to fewer exhalations..will merely be deformed with wens and swellings about the joints.

a1821 J. Keats Otho ii. ii, in R. M. Milnes Life, Lett. & Lit. Remains Keats (1848) II. 145 Erminia has my shame fix'd upon her, sure as a wen.

1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xi. 146 A tall, meagre man, with a nose like a wen.

1879 T. Bryant Man. Pract. Surg. (ed. 3) I. iii. 237 The head is very frequently the seat of the..sebaceous tumour which is called a ‘wen’.

in combination.1861 A. Wynter Our Social Bees 120 That cabinet of wen~like tumours.

c. Applied to the swelling on the throat characteristic of goitre. Also in combinations.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > glandular disorders > [noun] > goitre

wen1530

strume1559

struma1565

Bavarian poke1621

goitre1625

bronchocele1657

throat rupture1662

strumosity1674

Derby neck1769

Derbyshire neck1802

tracheocele1828

Graves's disease1868

thyrocele1886

strumitis1889

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 287/2 Wenne in the throte, gouoystre, gouistre.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 67 The men and women have great wens upon their throats, with drinking the waters that passe the Mines.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1646 (1955) II. 510 People having monstrous Gullets or Wenns of flesse growing to their throats.

1832 R. Lander & J. Lander Jrnl. Exped. Niger I. v. 204 Others who have unseemly wens on the throat, as large as cocoa-nuts.

1852 Meanderings of Memory I. 111 The wen-necked women.

d. An excrescence or tumour on the body of a horse.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > tumour

botcha1425

wen1559

fig1600

1559 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 133 One grey nagge with a wen in his side.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xxviii. 188 For the wen [Fr. louppe], open it when you shal perceiue it to be full of matter.

1649 J. Taylor Wandering 19 I hired a Horse.., she had two wens as big as clusters of Grapes hung over both her eyes.

1677 London Gaz. No. 1240/4 A black Coach Horse.., a wen upon the far foot behind.

1845 W. C. Spooner Vet. Art 77 Wens are oval or round bodies, found floating loosely under the skin.

†e. An excrescence on a tree. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > associated with particular type of plant > trees > excrescence or malformation

wen1538

measles1601

nest1887

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Molluscum, the wenne of a tree.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 108 With this wood [sc. Maple] tables are couered..and other fine workes made, specially of the knobbes or wennes that growe out of it.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 330 I think those of eight or ten Inches circumference to grow better than smaller ones, provided the Bark be smooth, tender and void of Wens.

1725 T. Taylor in Portland Papers (Hist. MSS. Comm.) VI. 88 One old oak..had a kind of excrescence or wen upon it,..its semi~circle was thirty-two feet.

a1800 W. Cowper Yardley-Oak in W. Hayley Life & Posthumous Writings Cowper (1804) III. 412 And sides imboss'd With prominent wens globose.

f. transferred and figurative.Sometimes applied spec. to London: cf. quots. 1783, 1822.

ΚΠ

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. ii. 99 Prince I do allow this Wen [sc. Falstaff] to be as familiar with me, as my dogge.

1640 W. Prynne Lord Bishops iv. sig. D1^v They are not the Body it selfe of the Church, but wennes, or swellings grown up, and..incorporated into the Body.

1649 J. Taylor Wandering 12 Saint Michaels Mount..is a barren stony little wen or wart.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe Pref. sig. **^v This Digression of ours..is no Wen, or Excrescency, in the Body of this Book; but a Natural and Necessary Member thereof.

1765 C. Talbot Let. 3 Sept. in Series of Lett. E. Carter & C. Talbot (1808) II. 22 This hot weather makes me languid... In Stoic language, I feel myself to be a wen.

1783 J. Tucker 4 Lett. Important National Subj. iii. 45 If..the Increase of Building [in London]..was looked upon to be no better than a Wen, or Excrescence, in the Body Politic.

1822 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 5 Jan. 5 jan. 1609 But, what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called..‘the metropolis of the empire’?

1843 H. Rogers in Edinb. Rev. Apr. 387 Locke at once applies the knife to those huge wens of ‘ontology’..which had so long impoverished..philosophy.

1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. iii. 133 Port of Spain would be such another wen upon the face of God's earth as..the city of Havanna.

†2. A spot, blemish, stain. literal and figurative. Obsolete. (Confused with wem n.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > spotted condition > spot

speckc725

moleeOE

spot?c1225

wen1340

spleck1398

tachea1400

motec1400

macule?a1425

smot1532

fleck1598

iron mould1638

flecket1684

sye1781

1340 Ayenb. 262 Þis boc is y-mad..Ham uor to berȝe uram alle manyere zen þet ine hare inwytte ne bleue no uoul wen.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. clxxviii. 1072 Þe roote þerof [sc. labrusca] ysoden in rayn water and ymedlid wiþ wyn..doþ away alle smytynge and wennes [emended in ed. to wemmes; L. maculas].

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Lev. xxii. 22 Yf it be blynde, or broken, or wounded, or haue a wen..they shal offre none soch vnto the Lorde.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Wenne or fleshe spotte, neuus.

?c1599 C. Marlowe tr. Ovid Certaine Elegies i. v, in J. Davies & C. Marlowe Epigrammes & Elegies sig. E3^v Not one wen in her bodie could I spie.

Compounds

wen-man n. a city-dweller.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1937 W. H. Auden Lett. from Iceland viii. 102 The mountain~snob is a Wordsworthian fruit... He calls all those who live in cities wen-men.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	wen
释义	wenn.¹ Brit. /wɛn/, U.S. /wɛn/ Forms: Old English wænn, wenn, Middle English wean, Middle English, 1600s–1700s wenn, Middle English–1600s wenne, Middle English– wen. Etymology: Old English wen(n, wæn(n = Dutch wen, West Flemish wan, apparently related to Middle Low German wene (1403), Low German wehne, wähne tumour, wart; the ultimate etymology is obscure. 1. Thesaurus » †a. A lump or protuberance on the body, a knot, bunch, wart. Obsolete. b. Pathology. A sebaceous cystic tumour under the skin, occurring chiefly on the head. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > [noun] weeningc900 wenc1000 susposea1325 deeming1340 supposala1425 conjecturec1460 supposing1530 supposition1565 suppose1582 surmise1593 surmisal1641 putation1649 expectation1793 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > swelling > [noun] > a swelling or protuberance ampereOE kernelc1000 wenc1000 knot?c1225 swella1250 bulchc1300 bunchc1325 bolninga1340 botcha1387 bouge1398 nodusa1400 oedemaa1400 wax-kernel14.. knobc1405 nodule?a1425 more?c1425 bunnyc1440 papa1450 knurc1460 waxing kernel?c1460 lump?a1500 waxen-kernel1500 bump1533 puff1538 tumour?1541 swelling1542 elevation1543 enlarging1562 knub1563 pimple1582 ganglion1583 button1584 phyma1585 emphysema?1587 flesh-pimple1587 oedem?a1591 burgeon1597 wartle1598 hurtle1599 pough1601 wart1603 extumescence1611 hulch1611 peppernel1613 affusion1615 extumescency1684 jog1715 knibloch1780 tumefaction1802 hunch1803 income1808 intumescence1822 gibber1853 tumescence1859 whetstone1886 tumidity1897 Osler's node1920 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun] > cyst wenc1000 crop1599 steatoma1599 hydatid1683 atheroma1706 cyst1731 sac1802 hygroma1813 galactocele1850 dacryops1857 ovule of Naboth1857 hydatid of Morgagni1858 thrombocyst1860 monocyst1869 cystoid1872 cystoma1876 sarcocyst1892 Baker's cyst1893 milk thrombus1895 sweat-cyst1898 tubulocystc1900 sweat vesicle1901 seroma1919 macrocyst1953 macrocyst1980 c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 34 Wiþ wenne on eagon genim þa holan cersan [etc.]. c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 46 Gif men synd wænnas gewunod on þæt heafod foran oððe on ða eagan. c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 422/2 Impetigo, eagan wenn. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 8 In doynge awey þat is to myche skyn: as wertis or wennys. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 522/1 Wenne, verucca,..gibbus. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 791/7 Hic gibbus, a wenne. 1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. ciij He that wolde haue slaine Prometheus, wounded his wenne with his swoorde, whereby he was healed of that disease. 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 72 The seede of Darnell..consumeth wens, hard lumps, and such like excrescence in any part of the body. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §997 It would be tried, with Cornes and Wenns, and such other Excrescences. 1672 R. Wiseman Treat. Wounds ii. ii. 10 I saw the Bullet lye like a small Wen or Scrophul, thrusting out under the Skin. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 59. ¶4 Cicero, who was so call'd from the Founder of his Family, that was marked on the Nose with a little Wenn like a Vetch. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 290 Others..exposed to fewer exhalations..will merely be deformed with wens and swellings about the joints. a1821 J. Keats Otho ii. ii, in R. M. Milnes Life, Lett. & Lit. Remains Keats (1848) II. 145 Erminia has my shame fix'd upon her, sure as a wen. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xi. 146 A tall, meagre man, with a nose like a wen. 1879 T. Bryant Man. Pract. Surg. (ed. 3) I. iii. 237 The head is very frequently the seat of the..sebaceous tumour which is called a ‘wen’. in combination.1861 A. Wynter Our Social Bees 120 That cabinet of wen~like tumours. c. Applied to the swelling on the throat characteristic of goitre. Also in combinations. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > glandular disorders > [noun] > goitre wen1530 strume1559 struma1565 Bavarian poke1621 goitre1625 bronchocele1657 throat rupture1662 strumosity1674 Derby neck1769 Derbyshire neck1802 tracheocele1828 Graves's disease1868 thyrocele1886 strumitis1889 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 287/2 Wenne in the throte, gouoystre, gouistre. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 67 The men and women have great wens upon their throats, with drinking the waters that passe the Mines. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1646 (1955) II. 510 People having monstrous Gullets or Wenns of flesse growing to their throats. 1832 R. Lander & J. Lander Jrnl. Exped. Niger I. v. 204 Others who have unseemly wens on the throat, as large as cocoa-nuts. 1852 Meanderings of Memory I. 111 The wen-necked women. d. An excrescence or tumour on the body of a horse. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > tumour botcha1425 wen1559 fig1600 1559 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 133 One grey nagge with a wen in his side. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xxviii. 188 For the wen [Fr. louppe], open it when you shal perceiue it to be full of matter. 1649 J. Taylor Wandering 19 I hired a Horse.., she had two wens as big as clusters of Grapes hung over both her eyes. 1677 London Gaz. No. 1240/4 A black Coach Horse.., a wen upon the far foot behind. 1845 W. C. Spooner Vet. Art 77 Wens are oval or round bodies, found floating loosely under the skin. †e. An excrescence on a tree. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > associated with particular type of plant > trees > excrescence or malformation wen1538 measles1601 nest1887 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Molluscum, the wenne of a tree. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 108 With this wood [sc. Maple] tables are couered..and other fine workes made, specially of the knobbes or wennes that growe out of it. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 330 I think those of eight or ten Inches circumference to grow better than smaller ones, provided the Bark be smooth, tender and void of Wens. 1725 T. Taylor in Portland Papers (Hist. MSS. Comm.) VI. 88 One old oak..had a kind of excrescence or wen upon it,..its semi~circle was thirty-two feet. a1800 W. Cowper Yardley-Oak in W. Hayley Life & Posthumous Writings Cowper (1804) III. 412 And sides imboss'd With prominent wens globose. f. transferred and figurative.Sometimes applied spec. to London: cf. quots. 1783, 1822. ΚΠ 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. ii. 99 Prince I do allow this Wen [sc. Falstaff] to be as familiar with me, as my dogge. View more context for this quotation 1640 W. Prynne Lord Bishops iv. sig. D1^v They are not the Body it selfe of the Church, but wennes, or swellings grown up, and..incorporated into the Body. 1649 J. Taylor Wandering 12 Saint Michaels Mount..is a barren stony little wen or wart. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe Pref. sig. *^v This Digression of ours..is no Wen, or Excrescency, in the Body of this Book; but a Natural and Necessary Member thereof. 1765 C. Talbot Let.* 3 Sept. in Series of Lett. E. Carter & C. Talbot (1808) II. 22 This hot weather makes me languid... In Stoic language, I feel myself to be a wen. 1783 J. Tucker 4 Lett. Important National Subj. iii. 45 If..the Increase of Building [in London]..was looked upon to be no better than a Wen, or Excrescence, in the Body Politic. 1822 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 5 Jan. 5 jan. 1609 But, what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called..‘the metropolis of the empire’? 1843 H. Rogers in Edinb. Rev. Apr. 387 Locke at once applies the knife to those huge wens of ‘ontology’..which had so long impoverished..philosophy. 1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. iii. 133 Port of Spain would be such another wen upon the face of God's earth as..the city of Havanna. †2. A spot, blemish, stain. literal and figurative. Obsolete. (Confused with wem n.) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > spotted condition > spot speckc725 moleeOE spot?c1225 wen1340 spleck1398 tachea1400 motec1400 macule?a1425 smot1532 fleck1598 iron mould1638 flecket1684 sye1781 1340 Ayenb. 262 Þis boc is y-mad..Ham uor to berȝe uram alle manyere zen þet ine hare inwytte ne bleue no uoul wen. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. clxxviii. 1072 Þe roote þerof [sc. labrusca] ysoden in rayn water and ymedlid wiþ wyn..doþ away alle smytynge and wennes [emended in ed. to wemmes; L. maculas]. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Lev. xxii. 22 Yf it be blynde, or broken, or wounded, or haue a wen..they shal offre none soch vnto the Lorde. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Wenne or fleshe spotte, neuus. ?c1599 C. Marlowe tr. Ovid Certaine Elegies i. v, in J. Davies & C. Marlowe Epigrammes & Elegies sig. E3^v Not one wen in her bodie could I spie. Compounds wen-man n. a city-dweller.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1937 W. H. Auden Lett. from Iceland viii. 102 The mountain~snob is a Wordsworthian fruit... He calls all those who live in cities wen-men. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). wenadv.conj.n.² Brit. /wɛn/, U.S. /wɛn/ Etymology: Representing a pronunciation of when adv., conj., pron., int., and n.. regional or nonstandard. = when adv., conj., pron., int., and n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > [adverb] > when or at the time that thoc893 then971 whenOE theOE whensoc1175 whenas1423 while as1625 wen1893 1893 H. A. Shands Some Peculiarities Speech Mississippi 67 Wen, sometimes used by illiterate whites and negroes for when. 1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career iii. 16 It puts me in mind ev the time wen the black fellers made the gins do all the work. 1952 S. Selvon Brighter Sun x. 207 Same ting happen wen my old queen was sick. 1979 Amer. Speech 54 67 W'en you see the fire come from the brimstone..this earth ain' gon' be burnin'. 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wenn.1

Compounds

wenadv.conj.n.2

wenn.¹

wenadv.conj.n.²