Wen vs Wren - What's the difference?
wen | wren |
A cyst on the skin.
* 1854 , (Henry David Thoreau), (Walden) ,
* 1973 , (Thomas Pynchon), Gravity's Rainbow :
* 1996 , (David Foster Wallace), Infinite Jest , Abacus 2013, p. 4:
Members of a mainly New World passerine bird family Troglodytidae.
Small bird of similar appearance to a true wren.
As nouns the difference between wen and wren
is that wen is while wren is (uk|informal) a female member of the royal navy (a member of the wrns).As a proper noun wren is
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Walden:
- When I have met an immigrant tottering under a bundle which contained his all--looking like an enormous wen which had grown out of the nape of his neck--I have pitied him, not because that was his all, but because he had all that to carry.
- Creeps, foreigners with tinted, oily skin, wens , sties, cysts, wheezes, bad teeth, limps, staring or—worse—with Strange Faraway Smiles.
- I am debating whether to risk scratching the right side of my jaw, where there is a wen .