different between slapper vs wench

English

Etymology

slap +? -er. For senses 2 and 3, the OED tentatively quotes the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang: "This working class term from East London and Essex is probably a corruption of shlepper or schlepper, a word of Yiddish origin, one of whose meanings is a slovenly or immoral woman."

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?slæp?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?slæp?/
• Rhymes: -æp?(?)

Noun

slapper (plural slappers)

1. (countable) One who, or that which, slaps.
2. (countable, Britain, Ireland, slang) A prostitute.
3. (countable, Britain, Ireland, Australia, slang) A woman of loose morals.
4. (countable, military) A type of detonator which uses a powerful surge of electricity to vaporize a thin metal foil, propelling a larger piece of plastic film at a speed high enough to detonate an explosive upon impact.
5. (countable, slang, archaic) Anything monstrous; a whopper.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Prealps, lappers, rappels

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?p?r

Adjective

slapper

1. Comparative form of slap

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

slapper

1. present of slappe

English

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English wench, wenche (“female baby; girl (especially unmarried); maiden, young woman; bondwoman; serving maid; beloved, sweetheart; concubine, mistress; harlot, prostitute”) [and other forms], a shortened form of Middle English wenchel (“girl; maiden; child”), from Old English wen?el, win?el (“child; servant; slave”), from Proto-Germanic *wankil?, from Proto-Germanic *wankijan? (“to sway; waver”). The English word is cognate with Old High German wenken (“to waver; to give way, yield”), wank?n (“to totter”).

The verb and adjective are derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Noun

wench (plural wenches)

1. (archaic, now dialectal or humorous, possibly offensive) A girl or young woman, especially a buxom or lively one.
   1. (specifically) A girl or young woman of a lower class.
2. (archaic or dialectal) Used as a term of endearment for a female person, especially a wife, daughter, or girlfriend: darling, sweetheart.
3. (archaic) A woman servant; a maidservant.
4. (archaic) A promiscuous woman; a mistress (“other woman in an extramarital relationship”).

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:promiscuous woman, Thesaurus:mistress
5. (archaic) A prostitute.
6. (US, archaic or historical) A black woman (of any age), especially if in a condition of servitude.

   Synonym: (dated, literary, now offensive) negress

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: wenke

Translations

Verb

wench (third-person singular simple present wenches, present participle wenching, simple past and past participle wenched)

1. (intransitive, archaic, now humorous) To frequent prostitutes; to whore; also, to womanize.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• wencher

Translations

References

Anagrams

• chewn