WEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wen mean? 

• WEN (noun)
  The noun WEN has 1 sense:

1. a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked

  Familiarity information: WEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

pilar cyst; sebaceous cyst; steatocystoma; wen

Hypernyms ("wen" is a kind of...):

cyst (a closed sac that develops abnormally in some body structure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wen"):

chalazion; Meibomian cyst (a small sebaceous cyst of the eyelid resulting when a Meibomian gland is blocked)

 Context examples 

He'll set and talk to her, with a calm spirit, wen it's like he couldn't bring himself to open his lips to another.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There was a fellow with a wen in his neck, larger than five wool-packs; and another, with a couple of wooden legs, each about twenty feet high.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I warn't sure in my mind, wen I come out this morning, as I could go and break to Ham, of my own self, what had so thankfully happened.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You see, wen Missis Gummidge falls a-thinking of the old 'un, she an't what you may call good company.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She'll work at them clothes, as must be made; and I hope her troubles will begin to seem longer ago than they was, wen she finds herself once more by her rough but loving uncle.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Betwixt you and me, Mas'r Davy—and you, ma'am—wen Mrs. Gummidge takes to wimicking,—our old country word for crying,—she's liable to be considered to be, by them as didn't know the old 'un, peevish-like. Now I DID know the old 'un, said Mr. Peggotty, and I know'd his merits, so I unnerstan' her; but 'tan't entirely so, you see, with others—nat'rally can't be!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)