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Wor vs Wen - What's the difference?

wor | wen |

As nouns the difference between wor and wen

is that wor is large bag, sack while wen is .

wor

English

Pronoun

  • (Geordie) Regional variant of our.
    • If ye gannin out the neet ye betta tell wor Jimmy

    Derived terms

    * wor kid (Geordie) * wor lass (Geordie)

    Anagrams

    * English first person pronouns

    wen

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cyst on the skin.
  • * 1854 , (Henry David Thoreau), (Walden) , 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.
  • * 1973 , (Thomas Pynchon), Gravity's Rainbow :
    • Creeps, foreigners with tinted, oily skin, wens , sties, cysts, wheezes, bad teeth, limps, staring or—worse—with Strange Faraway Smiles.
  • * 1996 , (David Foster Wallace), Infinite Jest , Abacus 2013, p. 4:
    • I am debating whether to risk scratching the right side of my jaw, where there is a wen .

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a runic letter later replaced by w

    • Anagrams

    *

    Etymology 3

    Noun

  • An enormously congested city.
    • English terms with homophones ----