What do you think of the word 'wench'?

[TitanDiddly]

I think it's a largely antiquited word that's okay to use as a fairly-innocent exclaimation.
Example:
"Wenches! Where is my wallet!?!"
Or
"Shut up wench, or I'll make a thread in ATOT about you."

I wouldn't use it around little kids or figures of authority, but I don't think of it as particularly offensive.

Dictionary.com says:
1. A young woman or girl, especially a peasant girl.
2. A woman servant.
3. A wanton woman.

intr.v. wenched, wench·ing, wench·es

To consort or engage in sex with wanton women. Used of a man.

Some think of 'wench' as equal to 'ho' or 'prostitute', and offensive. What's your take on 'wench'?

 

[yhelothar]

Meh.

 

[KLin]

To the winch, wench!!


guess the movie

 

[Kalvin00]

'Go grab that wench so I can get my truck outta' dis' mudhole!'


....Oh, wait, wrong word.

 

[nycxandy]

I find this post offensive, and have already contacted the ACLU.

STFU wench.

 

[AreaCode707]

Not at all offensive. I'd have no problem using it around children and figures of authority, in a teasing fashion.

 

[zephyrprime]

I think of Stanley and Craftsman tools. The real question is: metric or SAE?

Seriously, people don't use that word anymore. It fell out of fashion a few centuries ago.

 

[Twista]

Originally posted by: nycxandy
I find this post offensive, and have already contacted the ACLU.

STFU wench.

 

[Xionide]

Its one letter off from being wrench.

 

[TitanDiddly]

Originally posted by: zephyrprime
I think of Stanley and Craftsman tools. The real question is: metric or SAE?

Seriously, people don't use that word anymore. It fell out of fashion a few centuries ago.

SAE.

 

[Evadman]

The word is missing an "r"

 

[MichaelD]

I use that word often. Probably half a dozen times per month. It has not gone "out of fashion" or anything like that.

It 's a very descriptive word:

When in a bar: "Tom, where's the serving wench? I want another beer! BEER WENCH! Come here!"

When in a restaurant: "Jill, where's the serving wench? I'm ready to order."

When joking w/the GF: "Wench, get thy ass over here...I lust for thee!!!"

When talking about some sluttily-dressed woman you don't know: "Look at the rack on that wench...she'd make a fine concubine!!!"

See? It's all in the vocabulary.

 

[Squisher]

As for the use in a sentence, how about:

bridgen is a saucy little wench.

 

[daveshel]

Not offensive, I use it occasionally.

 

[ohtwell]

Doesn't bother me one bit

KLin - Is that quote from The Never Ending Story?


: ) Amanda

 

[cronos]

meh..

 

[Gooberlx2]

I heard a guy try to use that word in the workplace.....he was being an asshole and it was very inappropriate and not funny. It didn't go over very well for him.

 

[Hoober]

I call my wife wench three or four times a week. She usually just rolls her eyes.

 

[Allio]

http://little-gamers.com/index.php?strip_id=119

 

[moshquerade]

wench can be a playful name

 

[TitanDiddly]

Originally posted by: Allio
http://little-gamers.com/index.php?strip_id=119

:thumbsup:

 

[neonerd]

stfu wench j/k

 

[Klixxer]

God i'm tired.

I need some tequila, whiskey and a wench!

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: Klixxer
God i'm tired.

I need some tequila, whiskey and a wench!

Then you are obviously not THAT tired.

 

[Chaotic42]

A servant girl.