wench

• n. 若い女性；田舎娘
• vi. 不倫

PIE *wengから、曲がる、回る、弱い、語源的にはweak, vetchと同じ、通常は蔑称。

wench (n.)

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 *wankila- (cognates: Old Norse vakr "child, weak person," Old High German wanchal "fickle"), from PIE *weng- "to bend, curve" (see wink (v.)).

The wenche is nat dead, but slepith. [Wyclif, Matt. ix:24, c. 1380]

In Middle English occasionally with disparaging suggestion, and secondary sense of "concubine, strumpet" is attested by mid-14c. Also "serving-maid, bondwoman, young woman of a humble class" (late 14c.), a sense retained in the 19c. U.S. South in reference to slave women of any age. In Shakespeare's day a female flax-worker could be a flax-wench, flax-wife, or flax-woman.

wench (v.)

"to associate with common women," 1590s, from wench (n.). Related: Wenched; wencher; wenching.

1. Scarlett dropped Prissy 's arm and the wench sank whimpering to the steps.

思嘉が百里茜の腕を放すと、この女の子は階段の上にむせび泣きながら座った。

2.Bought her and her little wench ，Prissy.

は彼女と娘の百里茜を買った。

3.How can you know, wench ？Facts bear strong against him.

どうして知ってるの、娘？事実は彼にとって非常に不利であることを証明した。

4.Where is that simple-minded little wench ？

あのバカな娼婦はどこへ行ったの？

5.She was no sooner gone but comes a wench and a child,puffing and sweating.

彼女は立ち去ったかと思うと、すぐに娘の同じ子供が来て、息をして、汗を流していた。