Wincest vs Winnest - What's the difference?
wincest | winnest |
(fandom slang) The incestuous slash ship of the fictional brothers .
* 2009 , Emily Turner, "Scary Just Got Sexy: Transgression in Supernatural'' and Its Fanfiction", in ''In the Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural (ed. Supernatural.tv), BenBella Books (2009), ISBN 9781933771632,
* 2011 , Darren Elliott-Smith, "'Go Be Gay for That Poor, Dead Intern:' Conversion Fantasies and Gay Anxieties in Supernatural''", in ''TV Goes to Hell: An Unofficial Road Map of Supernatural (eds. Stacey Abbott & David Lavery), ECW Press (2011), ISBN 9781770410206,
* 2013 , Henry Jenkins & Suzanne Scott, "Textual Poachers'', Twenty Years Later", in Henry Jenkins, ''Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture , Routledge (2013), ISBN 9780415533287,
*
English eponyms
(archaic) (win)
To conquer, defeat.
*1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book IV:
*:For and we doo bataille we two wyl fyghte with one kny?t at ones / and therfore yf ye wille fyghte soo we wille be redy at what houre ye wille assigne / And yf ye wynne vs in bataille the lady shal haue her landes ageyne / ye say wel sayd sir Vwayne / therfor make yow redy so that ye be here to morne in the defence of the ladyes ryght
*1998 , Rhapsody, Emerald Sword
*:For the glory, the power to win the Black Lord, I will search for the Emerald Sword.
(label) To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).
(label) To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.
:
(label) To obtain (someone) by wooing.
*Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
*:Thy virtue won me; with virtue preserve me.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:She is a woman; therefore to be won .
(label) To achieve victory.
:
(label) To obtain (something desired).
:
(label) To cause a victory for someone.
:
:
To come to by toil or effort; to reach; to overtake.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:Even in the porch he him did win .
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:And when the stony path began, / By which the naked peak they won , / Up flew the snowy ptarmigan.
To extract (ore, coal, etc.).
:(Raymond)
gain; profit; income
wealth; owndom; goods
an individual victory (opposite of a loss)
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=September 29
, author=Jon Smith
, title=Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers
, work=BBC Sport
(slang) a feat, an (extraordinary) achievement (opposite of a fail)
As a proper noun Wincest
is the incestuous slash ship of the fictional brothers Dean and Sam Winchester from the television series Supernatural.As a noun wincest
is incest.As a verb winnest is
archaic second-person singular of win.wincest
English
Proper noun
(-)page 159:
- Wincest' stories often take their transgressive cues from the text itself; often when Sam and Dean are seducing each other in ' Wincest stories, the more reluctant of the two is convinced to engage in the relationship when the other reiterates that they are already outsiders in society, already isolated from the “normality” of their world—why should the prohibition of incest stand in their way when they have already broken so many other laws?
page 106:
- Instead, she suggests, the romanticized, paratextual Wincest slash fiction offers Sam and Dean a redemptive happiness that they are perpetually denied by the show's writers both in a diegetic sense (via Chuck Shurley, the show's writer/prophet who publishes novels based on the boys' adventures) and in a non-diegetic sense (via Eric Kripke, Sera Gamble, and the show's returning writers).
page xxxiii:
- Supernatural fandom features some of the more controversial iterations of slash, predominantly Wincest (the incestuous coupling of the show's protagonists, the Winchester brothers),
winnest
English
Verb
(head)win
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).Verb
Derived terms
* play to win * win friends * win upEtymology 3
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Our first win of the season put us in high spirits.
citation, page= , passage=Giovani dos Santos smashed home a third five minutes later to wrap up the win .}}
