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hench

/hɛnt͡ʃ/

hench noun: the narrow side of chimney stack, a haunch.

Noun

hench (plural henches)

  1. The narrow side of chimney stack, a haunch.
  2. The side of an arch from the topmost part (crown) to the bottommost part (impost).
  3. (Scotland) A limp; lameness.

Verb (1)

hench (third-person singular simple present henches, present participle henching, simple past and past participle henched)

  1. (Scotland) To halt or limp.

Verb (2)

hench (third-person singular simple present henches, present participle henching, simple past and past participle henched)

  1. To be a henchman or henchwoman, usually for a supervillain.
    • Candace Flynn (Ashley Tisdale): I told you! You're my henchman. Hench or something. / Stacy Hirano (Kelly Hu): Oh, no. You did not just tell me to hench.2010 May 3, Jon Colton Barry, Piero Piluso, “The Beak”, in Phineas and Ferb, season 2, episode 27
    • [Clayton Cole:] Sully? Hey, how you been, man? Haven't seen you since... [Sully:] Since we henched for the Owl.2016, Christos Gage, Civil War II: Amazing Spider-Man, number 1, →ISBN, page 31

Adjective

hench (comparative hencher, superlative henchest)

  1. (UK, slang) Big, strong, and muscular.
    • He's well hench.
    • That's a seriously hench doorman.
    Synonyms:
    buff
  2. (Multicultural-London-English, UK, slang) Impressive, good, cool.
    • It caught me off guard because it was hench. My mind was like, ‘right, this burger’s hench’. I looked at it, right, ‘that look peng’, and it hit me two thirds of the way in, I clocked that the burger was not peng at all, it was just hench.2016 December 9, Adam Boult, quoting Elijah Quashie, “These brilliant videos about London's takeaway chicken shops are a YouTube hit”, in The Daily Telegraph

Proper noun capitalized: Hench

Hench (plural Henches)

  1. A surname.

hench meaning in Tamil

hench in Tamil

மிகு வலிமை

Synonyms of hench

Forms of hench

Noun
pluralhenches
Verb
third-person singular presenthenches
present participlehenching
past participlehenched
pasthenched
Adjective
comparativehencher
superlativehenchest
Proper noun
pluralHenches

Origin of hench

Variant of haunch.

Clipping of henchman.

Possibly a variant of Hinch.

Words that rhyme with hench

11 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about hench

What does hench mean?
Hench means the narrow side of chimney stack, a haunch.
What is hench in Tamil?
Hench in Tamil is மிகு வலிமை. See Hench meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hench?
Hench can be a noun, a verb, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce hench?
Hench is pronounced /hɛnt͡ʃ/.
What is the plural of hench?
The plural of hench is henches.

Words near hench in the dictionary

  1. henced
  2. henceforth
  3. henceforward
  4. henceforwards
  5. hencefrom
  6. hench
  7. hench-wench
  8. hench-wenches
  9. henchboy
  10. henchboys
  11. henched

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hench (page history and authors); Hench (page history and authors); hench (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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