wans

Noun (1)

wan (uncountable)

1. The quality of being wan; wanness.
   • And while we stood beside the fount, and watch’d / Or seem’d to watch the dancing bubble, approach'd / Melissa, tinged with wan from lack of sleep, / Or sorrow, and glowing round her dewy eyes / The circled Iris of a night of tears ; [...]1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part III”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 47

   Synonyms:

   achromatism, decolouration, paleness, pallidity, pallor

Noun (2)

wan (plural wans)

1. (Ireland) A girl or woman.
   • Then I’d tell myself there were plenty of oul wans and oul fellas in work who never got it and that I’d be lucky like them and escape. Only I didn’t. I don’t want to die.1993, Elaine Crowley, The Ways Of Women, London: Orion, →ISBN

   Synonyms:

   lass, maid, babe, bint, bird, cake, chick, colleen, cutty, damoiselle

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