wenchdom
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
wenchdom (uncountable)
- The domain or world of wenches; wenches collectively
- (Can we date this quote?), F. J. Bradley, Where The Lonely Spend Their Days, page 46:
- Daily did he return home, triumphant warriorto the faithful wench and the two brats -- the young bastard, albehim princely, and young bitch, albeher queenly, destined for war and wenchdom.
- The state or condition of being a wench; wenchhood
- 1868, The Dublin University Magazine - Volume 72, page 63:
- Unlovely is the project which would take womanhood out of its graceful place in creation, and substitute for it a brawling, political wenchdom, and a sisterhood of hussies for the polling-booths.
- 2016, Elizabeth Rolls, In Debt to the Earl:
- 'You're certainly a cut above wenchdom, even if your taste in men is execrable.