noun

1. a girl or young woman: now a derogatory or jocular term
2. Archaic
   1. a country girl
   2. a female servant
   3. a sexually loose and immoral woman

Etymology: ME wenche, contr. < wenchel, child, boy, girl, young woman < OE wencel, a child, akin to wancol, unsteady (? in reference to an infant's gait): for IE base see winch

intransitive verb