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Wrench

proper nounattested in dialogue

A surname transferred from the nickname.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname transferred from the nickname.

Etymology

From wrench, in the sense of trick, artifice, deceit, thus a nickname for a sly and wily person.

Forms

plural
Wrenches
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).