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Wench vs Dell - What's the difference?

wench | dell |

As nouns the difference between wench and dell

is that wench is (archaic) a young woman, especially a servant while dell is valley.

As a verb wench

is to frequent prostitutes; to womanize.

wench

English

Noun

(es)
  • (archaic) A young woman, especially a servant.
  • * W. Black
  • He was received by the daughter of the house, a pretty, buxom, blue-eyed little wench .
  • (archaic) A promiscuous woman.
  • * Spectator
  • It is not a digression to talk of bawds in a discourse upon wenches .
  • (US, dated) A black woman; a negress.
  • Verb

    (es)
  • To frequent prostitutes; to womanize.
  • * 2011 , [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/3091.html]:
  • Wining and wenching , baby!

    dell

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • valley
  • * 1794, , lines 49-50
  • To this day they dwell
    In a lonely dell .
  • * Tickell
  • In dells and dales, concealed from human sight.
  • (obsolete) A young woman; a wench.
  • * Ben Jonson
  • Sweet doxies and dells .

    Synonyms

    * dale * dingle * vale * valley * See also