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wench

英語

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詞源

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名詞派生自中古英語 wench、wenche (「女嬰；女孩（尤指未婚的）；少婦；女奴隸；女僕；親愛的；妾；妓女」) [以及其他形式]，[1]略自中古英語 wenchel (「女孩；女僕；小孩」)，源自古英語 wenċel、winċel (「小孩；侍者；奴隸」)，[2][3]源自原始日耳曼語 *wankilą，源自原始日耳曼語 *wankijaną (「搖，曳」)。英語詞與古高地德語 wenken (「搖曳；投降」)、wankōn (「踉蹌」)同源。

動詞[4]和形容詞派生自名詞。

發音

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名詞

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wench (複數 wenches)

  1. (古舊，現方言或幽默，可能冒犯) 少女，女孩
    Jane played the role of a wench in an Elizabethan comedy.
    Jane在一出伊麗莎白時代的喜劇里扮演少女。
    1. (尤指) 地位低微的女孩
      • 1871, W[illiam] Barry, 「The Barony of Threeneheila within Drum」, 出自 Moorland and Stream. With Notes and Prose Idyls on Shooting and Trout Fishing, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC，第 25 頁:
        The woman is a brazen, hard-looking wench, a female pedlar, who hawks needles, thread, cheap looking-glasses, pious pictures, almanacs, hair-pins, ballads, of the most humble pattern, through the country.
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  2. (古舊或方言) （對女性的愛稱，尤對妻子、女兒或女朋友） 親愛的
  3. (古舊) 女僕
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    • Template:RQ:Scott Tales of My Landlord 3
    • 1881, Henry Inman, 「A Legend of Pawnee Rock; or How the life of an old trapper was saved by a bird」, 出自 Stories of the Old Santa Fe Trail‎[1], Kansas City, Missouri: Ramsey, Millett & Hudson，第 89,91 頁:
      [...] working for Colonel Boone a the time--and two more men whose names I disremember now, and a nigger wench we had for a cook. [...] So I got onto one of the ponies and led the others down to the spring near camp to water them while the wench was a getting breakfast, and some o' the rest o' the outfit was a fixin the saddles and greasing the wagon.
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  4. (古舊) 蕩婦；情人，情婦
    近義詞：參見Thesaurus:promiscuous woman, Thesaurus:mistress
  5. (古舊) 妓女
  6. (美國，古舊或歷史) 女黑人（尤指奴隸）
    近義詞：(過時，文雅，現已冒犯) negress
    • 1776–1787, Carmelita Robertson, Elizabeth E. D. Eve, Black Loyalists of Nova Scotia: Tracing the History of Tracadie Loyalists, 1776–87 (Curatorial Report; no. 91), Halifax, N.S.: History Section, Nova Scotia Museum, Department of Tourism & Culture, 出版於 2000, →ISBN:
      Nancy Basset, 28, likely wench, mulatto / Proved to be free. / Certified free as per General Birch Certificate. // Patience Jackson, 23, very likely wench, mulatto / Says she was born free Rhode Island. / Certified free as per General Birch Certificate.
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    • Template:RQ:Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin
    • 1866年3月2日, 「Sharp Wench」, 出自 The Appeal, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Minn.: Parker, Burgett & Hardy, →OCLC，第 3 頁; quoted in Hannah Rosen, 「Notes」, 出自 Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South (Gender and American Culture), Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2009, →ISBN, footnote 186，第 282 頁:
      A colored girl [...] was fined ten dollars in the Freedman's Court yesterday, for being drunk and disorderly. Not having the money in her possession, she requested that a guard be sent with her to her residence to procure it. The Provost allowed a guard to wait on the wench, who, as soon as she found herself inside of her own door, locked it, and left the poor guard outside without the money. He returned to court without either the wench or fine.
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    • 2014, Kirsten Pullen, 「Light Egyptian: Lena Horne and the Representation of Black Femininity」, 出自 Like a Natural Woman: Spectacular Female Performance in Classical Hollywood, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN，第 106–107 頁s:
      So complete was this illusion, claims [Eric] Lott, that many audience members, including Mark Twain's mother, believed they were seeing authentic, biologically black performers on New York stages. Of course, wench characters seem to especially test the bounds of authentic performance. Played by men, wenches were nonetheless read by audiences as beautiful women: [...] [E]xtant photographs and engravings of wench performers do not always represent them as blacked up, [...] In antebellum minstrel shows, wench songs were most often sung about mulatto women rather than by them.
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衍生詞彙

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派生語彙

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  • 蘇里南湯加語: wenke

動詞

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wench (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 wenches，現在分詞 wenching，一般過去時及過去分詞 wenched)

  1. (不及物，古舊，現幽默) 嫖娼；沉溺女色
    • 1638, Thomas Nabbes, The Bride, a Comedie. […], London: Printed by R[ichard] H[odgkinson] for Laurence Blaikelocke […], 出版於 1640, →OCLC; republished in Playes, Maskes, Epigrams, Elegies, and Epithalamiums. […], London: Printed by I. Dawson, […], 1639, →OCLC, Act II, scene iv:
      This is ſure ſome hide-bound ſtudent, that proportions his expence by his penſion; and wencheth at Tottenham court for ſtewed prunes and cheeſcakes.
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    • 1647, William Lilly, 「Another Briefe Description of the Shapes and Formes of the Planets」, 出自 Christian Astrology Modestly Treated of in Three Books. […], London: Printed by Tho[mas] Brudenell for John Partridge and Humph[rey] Blunden, […], →OCLC，第 85 頁:
      He [a man under the influence of the planet Mars] hath a marke or ſcar in his face, is broad-ſhouldered, a ſturdy ſtrong body, being bold and proud, given to mocke, ſcorne, quarrell, drinke, game and wench: which you may eaſily know by the Signe he is in; if in the houſe of ♀ he wencheth, if in ☿s he ſteals, [...]
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    • 1767, [Hugh Kelly], 「Saturday, May 1」, 出自 The Babler. Containing a Careful Selection from those Entertaining and Interesting Essays, which have Given the Public so much Satisfaction under that Title during a Course of Four Years, in Owen’s Weekly Chronicle, 第 II 卷, 第 LXVI 期, London: Printed for J[ohn] Newbery, […]; L. Hawes, W. Clarke, and R. Collins, […]; and J. Harrison, […], →OCLC:
      In ſhort, Ned has drank, wenched, fought, and beggared himſelf, through an exalted ſolicitude for the general emolument, and is now cloſe pent up in one of our priſons, out of a pure and diſintereſted regard for the welfare of ſociety.
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    • 1807 March, [Charles] Dibdin, 「Dibdin’s Tour. [Letter 1 … Introductory.]」, 出自 The Polyanthos, 第 IV 卷, Boston, Mass.: Published by J[oseph] T[inker] Buckingham, […], →OCLC, footnote，第 247 頁:
      I know a clergyman who, having enjoyed for several years the world's good opinion, was turned off, through a ridiculous pique, by a young nobleman to whom he was preceptor. [...] He drank, wenched, and was so complete a gambler, that, had he kept his old situation much longer, he would have ruined the principles of his pupil.
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    • Template:RQ:Scott Fortunes of Nigel
    • 1972, Philip K[indred] Dick, 章號 1, 出自 We Can Build You (DAW SF Books; no. 14), New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, →OCLC; 再版 London: HarperVoyager, HarperCollins, 2008, →ISBN，第 11 頁:
      Bundy's reasons for leaving the Cape are obscure. He drinks, but that doesn't dim his powers. He wenches. But so do we all.
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    • 1979 October, Roald Dahl, 章號 1, 出自 My Uncle Oswald, London: Michael Joseph, →ISBN; 再版 New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, 2011, →ISBN:
      Already, you see, I had begun to acquire a taste for rakery and wenching among the London debutantes.
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變位

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wench的變位
不定式 (to) wench
現在時 過去式
第一人稱單數 wench wenched
第二人稱單數 wench, wenchest1 wenched, wenchedst1
第三人稱單數 wenchs, wencheth1 wenched
複數 wench
虛擬語氣 wench
祈使語氣 wench —
分詞 wenching wenched

1古舊或棄用。

衍生詞彙

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參考資料

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  1. ↑ 「wench(e, n.」 in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. ↑ 「wenchel, n.」 in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  3. ↑ 「wench, n.」，OED Online  ⁠，Oxford, Oxfordshire：Oxford University Press，1926年; 「wench, n.」，Lexico，Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press，2019–present年.
  4. ↑ 「wench, v.」，OED Online  ⁠，Oxford, Oxfordshire：Oxford University Press，1926年; 「wench, v.」，Lexico，Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press，2019–present年.

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