WENCHER, WENCHING
NOUNS
► GUSSETING wenching → 19C colloq.
NOUNS – PERSON (one who associates with common women)
► FIGURE-MAKER a wencher → c1875 sl.
► GUSSETEER a whoremonger; a lecher; a wencher; somewhat derisory → 19C Brit. sl.
► LUSTY-GUTS a notorious copulator; a good wencher → L16 sl.
► LUSTY LAURENCE ► LUSTY LAWRENCE a good wencher → 1594 obs.
► MOTONER a wencher; one who associates with common women; a lecher; one who patronizes prostitutes → 1852 obs.
► MOUSE-HUNT one who runs after women; a womanizer; a wencher → 1595 UK sl.
► MUTTON-MONGER a whoremonger; a man addicted to prostitutes; a debauched man; a pimp, a wencher → 1532 sl., now rare or obs.
► SMELL-SMOCK a licentious man; one who runs after women; a great wencher; a lover of women; a whoremonger (in early use employed suggestively as a surname) → 1550 obs.
► STRIKER a wencher → 1639 sl.
► STRINGER a whoremonger; a lecher; a wencher → 1611 sl.
► TAD a wencher; a mutton-monger; a promiscuous man → Bk1916 sl.
► TWIGGER a vigorous, prolific breeder: originally said of a ewe; hence, an unchaste or lascivious person; a wanton person of either sex; a strumpet, a harlot, a fornicator, a wencher → 1594
► WOODMAN a wencher, a whoremonger, a man who seeks prostitutes → 19C Brit. sl.