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wennel

wennel is the obsolete form of weanel.

Meaning of weanel

Noun

weanel (plural weanels)

  1. (obsolete) A weanling.
    • 16thC, Edmund Spenser, The Shepherd′s Calendar: September, 1862, George Gilfillan, Charles Cowden Clarke (editors), The Poetical Works Of Edmund Spenser, Volume 4, page 278,
      A lamb, or a kid, or a weanel wast; / With that to the wood would he speed him fast.

Forms of wennel

pluralwennels

Questions about wennel

What is wennel the obsolete form of?
Wennel is the obsolete form of weanel.

Words near wennel in the dictionary

  1. Wenling
  2. Wenlock
  3. Wenlock Edge
  4. Wenlockian
  5. Wenman
  6. wennel
  7. wennels
  8. Wenner
  9. Wenners
  10. Wenning
  11. Wenninger

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wennel (page history and authors); weanel (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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