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noun wɛnwɛn 1A boil or other swelling or growth on the skin, especially a sebaceous cyst. Example sentencesExamples - Throughout the sermon that morning, Inman sat staring at Ada's neck and listening as Monroe repeated four times the Emerson passage about warts and wens and decreasing forever.
- The painting was grey, blue, and white, with a firm black line, a representation of an older woman, extremely well done, glasses on her nose, a kind of wen on her chin.
- There was a fellow with a wen in his neck, larger than me, and another with a wooden leg.
- The make-up people excelled themselves with lots of dirty fingernails and a welter of warts, wens and rotten corpses.
Synonyms swelling, spot, pimple, blister, pustule, eruption, blemish, carbuncle, cyst, abscess, tumour, ulcer, chilblain, gumboil 2archaic A very large or overcrowded city.
Origin Old English wen(n), of unknown origin; compare with Low German wehne 'tumour, wart'. noun wɛnwɛn old-fashioned spelling of wynn
nounwenwɛn 1A boil or other swelling or growth on the skin, especially a sebaceous cyst. Example sentencesExamples - Throughout the sermon that morning, Inman sat staring at Ada's neck and listening as Monroe repeated four times the Emerson passage about warts and wens and decreasing forever.
- There was a fellow with a wen in his neck, larger than me, and another with a wooden leg.
- The painting was grey, blue, and white, with a firm black line, a representation of an older woman, extremely well done, glasses on her nose, a kind of wen on her chin.
- The make-up people excelled themselves with lots of dirty fingernails and a welter of warts, wens and rotten corpses.
Synonyms swelling, spot, pimple, blister, pustule, eruption, blemish, carbuncle, cyst, abscess, tumour, ulcer, chilblain, gumboil - 1.1archaic An outstandingly large or overcrowded city.
Origin Old English wen(n), of unknown origin; compare with Low German wehne ‘tumor, wart’. nounwenwɛn old-fashioned spelling of wynn
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