wenching
Pursuing loose company
Wenching is the pursuit of promiscuous women, typically by a man: He was known for wenching and gambling.
His wenching days are behind him.
The word implies dissolute behavior—chasing serving girls, frequenting brothels, or generally treating women as conquests.
It sounds archaic now, confined mostly to historical novels.
Excessive sexual indulgence
- lewdnessCrude sexual indecency
- promiscuityFrequent casual sexual encounters
- licentiousnessExcessive disregard for morality
- debaucheryExtreme indulgence in vices
harlotry · immorality · sordidness · degradation · disrepute · scandalous · shameful · vulgar
Public drinking establishment
- alehouseDrinking establishment
- servingmaidFemale household helper
- innkeeperLodging establishment operator
- barmaidFemale pub employee
courtesan · paramour · mistress · doxy · strumpet · harlot · trollop · bodice
Public drinking establishment
- alehouseDrinking establishment
- revelryNoisy, lively celebration
- drinkingLiquid consumption act
- feastingEating sumptuously together
merrymaking · debauchery · bacchanal · frolic · carousing · reveling · wassailing · tippling
lechery
Excessive sexual indulgence
- lewdnessCrude sexual indecency
- promiscuityFrequent casual sexual encounters
- licentiousnessExcessive disregard for morality
debauchery · harlotry · immorality · sordidness · degradation · disrepute · scandalous · shameful · vulgar · dissolute
tavern
Public drinking establishment
- alehouseDrinking establishment
- servingmaidFemale household helper
- innkeeperLodging establishment operator
barmaid · courtesan · paramour · mistress · doxy · strumpet · harlot · trollop · bodice · petticoat
tavern
Public drinking establishment
feasting · merrymaking · debauchery · bacchanal · frolic · carousing · reveling · wassailing · tippling · roister
wenchingchastity
Abstaining from sexual activity
celibacy · abstinence · fidelity · faithfulness · continence
wenchingtemperance
Habitual moderation in behavior
asceticism · self-restraint · sobriety · rectitude · puritanism