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dench

/dɛnt͡ʃ/

dench adjective: excellent; impressive; awesome.

Adjective

dench (comparative more dench, superlative most dench)

  1. (UK, slang) Excellent; impressive; awesome.
    • ‘Oh God I got it so wrong last night when DS2 was being an arse. I told him he was “Dench” and got a beaming smile and a “Thanks mum”!’ – Smoothieooo2013 June 25, Richard Moynihan, “Top 14 teenage slang translations according to Mumsnet users”, in Metro
    • Some may think it is ridic but the evolution of language means that Scrabble has to keep up to stay dench - obvs.2015, “Scrabble stays dench with new words”, in The Independent
  2. (UK, slang) Well-built, muscular, attractive.
    • This is my final Dench update for 2019. I will continue the bulk into 2020 but will also incorporate a short shred at some point during the year.2019 July 27, A Side of Miso, “Final Dench in Japan”, in YouTube

Proper noun capitalized: Dench

IPA/ˈdɛnt͡ʃ/

Dench

  1. An English surname.

dench meaning in Tamil

dench in Tamil

மீ ஈர்ப்பு

Forms of dench

comparativemore dench
superlativemost dench

Origin of dench

Disputed. Purportedly coined by rapper Lethal Bizzle in 2010. Attested from around that time. Compare slang term hench (“muscular”).

From Middle English Dench, from Densc (“Danish”), from Old English Denisc, from Proto-Germanic *daniskaz. Doublet of Danish.

Words formed from dench

Words that rhyme with dench

11 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about dench

What does dench mean?
Dench means excellent; impressive; awesome.
What is dench in Tamil?
Dench in Tamil is மீ ஈர்ப்பு. See Dench meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dench?
Dench can be an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce dench?
Dench is pronounced /dɛnt͡ʃ/.

Words near dench in the dictionary

  1. denbufylline
  2. Denby
  3. Denby Dale
  4. Denbys
  5. Dence
  6. dench
  7. Denchworth
  8. dendeng
  9. Dendermonde
  10. Dendi
  11. Dendinger

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dench (page history and authors); Dench (page history and authors); dench (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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