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Fennel vs Wennel - What's the difference?

fennel | wennel |

As nouns the difference between fennel and wennel

is that fennel is a plant, Foeniculum vulgare, of the parsley family, which has a sweet, anise-like flavor while wennel is obsolete form of lang=en|weanel.

fennel

English

(wikipedia fennel)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A plant, Foeniculum vulgare , of the parsley family, which has a sweet, anise-like flavor.
  • The bulb, leaves, or stalks of the plant, eaten as a vegetable.
  • The seeds of the fennel plant used as a spice in cooking.

    • Derived terms

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    wennel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 16thC , , May?s Husbandry'', ''A Book of Huswifery'', in 1812, William Mavor (editor), ''Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry together with A Book of Huswifery , page 156,
    • Pinch never thy wennels of water and meat4, / If ever ye hope to have them good neat.
  • * 1983 , Frederick George Emmison, Elizabethan Wills of South-West Essex , page 24,
    • To Agnes Fullam my daughter-in-law 1 calf or wennel to be weaned and brought up at Easter next come 12 months until it be profitable and then to have it to her own use.
  • * 2010 , J. A. Noble, The Lime Walk: A Story of Norfolk Family Life in the Regency Era , page 147,
    • His white-locked head shaking from side to side, the man was moaning: “They ploughed up the common and me wennel Bu??ercup died. An so me chile died and then me ?ooman died. They all on ?em died cos they ploughed up the common... ”