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单词 wenny
释义 ˈwenny, a. Now rare or Obs.
[f. wen1 + -y.]
1. Of the nature of or similar to a wen.
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. clxvi. 463 A remedie against..hard wennie swellings.1611Cotgr. s.v. Goitrons, The wennie bags that breed vnder the throats of the most inhabitants of the Alpes.1672Wiseman Wounds ii. App. i. 79, I have had some persons..so deformed with these [cicatrices], as they have suspected them to be wenny.1748Phil. Trans. XLV. 536 Wenny Tumours of a monstrous Size.1766Compl. Farmer Dd 1, Capellets, in horses, are particular swellings..of a wenny nature, which grow on the heel of the hock, and on the point of the elbow.
2. Afflicted with wens; goitrous.
1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 60 The women are..for the most part wenny, that is, having great bunches under their chinnes with drinking snow water.1786tr. Beckford's Vathek 110 Others..with hump-backs, wenny necks, and even horns.
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