Wen

Pronunciation

• enPR: wÄ•n, IPA: /wÉ›n/
• Rhymes: -É›n
• Homophones: when in accents with the wine-whine merger

From Old English wenn. Cognate with Middle Low German wene, Dutch wen.

Full definition of wen

Noun

1. A cyst on the skin.
• 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Walden: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.
• 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:Creeps, foreigners with tinted, oily skin, wens, sties, cysts, wheezes, bad teeth, limps, staring or—worse—with Strange Faraway Smiles.
• 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Abacus 2013, p. 4:I am debating whether to risk scratching the right side of my jaw, where there is a wen.

From Old English wynn

Noun

1. a runic letter later replaced by w

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