Obs. exc. arch. [f. WENCH sb.] intr. To associate with common women. † To wench out (time): to spend (it) in wenching.
1599. Porter, Two Angry Wom. Abington, H 1. Indeed tis true, I am thus late a wenching. But I am forc’st to wench without a wench.
c. 1624. Chapman, Hymn to Hermes, 324. Tis better here to Imitate the Gods, And wine or wench out all times Periods.
1634. Peacham, Compl. Gentl., i. (1906), 10. To be drunke, sweare, wench … are the attributes and markes now adayes of a great part of our Gentry.
1668. Dryden, Even. Love, IV. ii. As I am a Gentleman, a man of the Town, one who wears good Cloathes, Eates, Drinks, and Wenches abundantly.
1722. Steele, Conscious Lovers, IV. ii. Sir, I never saw a Man that wench’d soberly and discreetly, that ever left it off.
1809. Malkin, Gil Blas, IX. i. (Rtldg.), 311. Tell me where Signor de Santillane is fallible. Is he fond of play? does he wench?
