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# wench

«wench» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **girl** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

girl

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A girl or young woman, often a servant or a country girl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wench/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today "wench" is an old word and can sound rude; in these texts it simply means a girl.

### examples

- "Who knows whence the wench comes?" said she. (Grimm's Fairy Stories) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wench/#x1)
- Thereupon the King’s son recognised the cinder wench; so he took both the girls with him, and set out. (The Red Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wench/#x2)
- ‘The cinder wench is not here,’ said the Prince at last; ‘go and fetch her, and let her try on the things.’ (The Red Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wench/#x3)

### primary record

wench

### tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 12 (Torah 0, tales 12, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.4 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wench» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wench/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.