wen
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- //wɛn//
A cyst on the skin; a tumor or wart.
sostantivo
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A cyst on the skin; a tumor or wart.
There was a Fellow with a Wen in his Neck, larger than five Woolpacks, and another with a couple of wooden Legs, each about twenty foot high.
When I have met an immigrant tottering under a bundle which contained his all--looking like an enormous wen which had grown out of the nape of his neck--I have pitied him, not because that was his all, but because he had all that to carry.
Creeps, foreigners with tinted, oily skin, wens, sties, cysts, wheezes, bad teeth, limps, staring or—worse—with Strange Faraway Smiles.
I am debating whether to risk scratching the right side of my jaw, where there is a wen.
Etimologia
From Middle English wen, wenne, from Old English wenn, wænn (“wen”), from Proto-Germanic *wanjaz. Cognate with Dutch wen (“goiter”), Low German Ween (“wen”), dialectal German Wenne (“wen”), Danish van, væne.
sostantivo
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Variante di wynnobsoletoObsolete form of wynn (“the letter ƿ”).
Etimologia
Inherited from Old English wynn.
avverbio
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Variante di whenAlternative spelling of when.
Etimologia
Eye dialect spelling of when.
congiunzione
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Variante di whenAlternative spelling of when.
pronome
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Variante di whenAlternative spelling of when.
sostantivo
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Variante di whenAlternative spelling of when.
Forme
- plurale
- wens