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Working girl
Answer for the clue "Working girl ", 5 letters:
wench
Alternative clues for the word wench
Word definitions for wench in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., wenche "girl, young woman," especially if unmarried, also "female infant," shortened from wenchel "child," also in Middle English "girl, maiden," from Old English wencel , probably related to wancol "unsteady, fickle, weak," from Proto-Germanic ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wench \Wench\ (w[e^]nch), n. [OE. wenche, for older wenchel a child, originally, weak, tottering; cf. AS. wencle a maid, a daughter, wencel a pupil, orphan, wincel, winclu, children, offspring, wencel weak, wancol unstable, OHG. wanchol; perhaps akin to ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) A young woman, especially a servant. 2 (context archaic English) A promiscuous woman. 3 (context US dated English) A black woman; a negress. vb. (context intransitive English) To frequent prostitutes; to womanize.
Usage examples of wench.
I must admit that to you aforehand, but that is probably due to her being a rejected wench.
He was an Argon, that much she knew from the frenzied whisperings and gawking of the tavern wenches around her.
There was another serving wench, named Astel, and she was a kindhearted young thing.
He could feel sorry for any man tormented and bedeviled by a woman, though he could not see their foolishness in letting themselves be drawn to such ends by a simple wench.
A further note to the riddle of this sphinx was when Tim recently overheard the bohunk Albertsons manager telling his deli wenches to withhold the snack trays if they saw Tiresias at all.
You will waste the fields and the vineyards of the Caphars, you will burn their villages, you will strike down their men with arrows, and lead away their wenches captive.
Heading toward the dark, waiting cesspool where he knew Elminster of Shadowdale and the wench Sharantyr would come .
She sidled along the Cinder Town fences like any little wench returning after a breathless adventure, and nearly collided with poor Coode who was leaning over his front gate and hanging his melancholy on the pegs of the stars.
In the portrait the breast was bare, and as I was remarking that painters did those parts as best they could, the impudent wench seized the opportunity to shew me that the miniature was faithful to nature.
A sour wench, as thrifty as the dasht was liberal, and will no doubt start by letting half of us go and cutting the pay of the rest.
Sevrin was getting deuced little pleasure out of the constant rounds of gambling, drinking, and wenching.
When Ladayna appeared and denied my identity, I thought the wench angered with me again and merely set upon spitefulness which would slightly disaccommodate me.
Seagani tavern wench who was leaning drearily in a doorway and asked the price of a meal and a drink.
With fraudulent hetero cockiness I sank my sword into the waiting wench.
He called out some name, and a tidy-looking lad making his appearance, he told him to get me a wench just as though he were ordering a bottle of champagne.