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Wench used to mean young girl, so if you find someone describing a lovely wench in Shakespeare, it means a lovely girl.

Wench comes from Middle English, and was a common word for girl, child, or servant. Over time it came to mean mainly serving girls, as in a bar wench, who serves drinks at a tavern. Eventually it came to mean prostitute. If you find wench in a love poem from the 16th century, think of it as an informal version of maiden. But if someone called you a wench last week, you should be insulted.

“Take a wench for a bride” read the banner above the auction block. 

“You shouldn’t associate with the lower orders, like that wench from Ayortha,” she said the next evening.

They said Vikings carried "wenches" in a practice that lasted for 300 years and was reborn after 900 years - and some people took it "very seriously".

And the man took her gratefully, for she was a stout wench and good-natured, and he was a man too poor to wed except to such an one.