tench
See also: Tench
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English tenche, from Old French tenche, from Late Latin tinca.
Noun edit
tench (plural tench or tenches)
- A species of freshwater game fish, Tinca tinca.
Translations edit
species of freshwater game fish
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Further reading edit
- “tench”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Etymology 2 edit
Contraction.
Noun edit
tench (plural tenches)
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A penitentiary.
References edit
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary