hench
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See also: Hench
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /hɛnt͡ʃ/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛntʃ
Etymology 1
[edit]Variant of haunch.
Noun
[edit]hench (plural henches)
- (architecture) The narrow side of chimney stack, a haunch.
- (architecture) The side of an arch from the topmost part (crown) to the bottommost part (impost).
- (Scotland) A limp; lameness.
Verb
[edit]hench (third-person singular simple present henches, present participle henching, simple past and past participle henched)
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]hench (third-person singular simple present henches, present participle henching, simple past and past participle henched)
- (comics) To be a henchman or henchwoman, usually for a supervillain.
Adjective
[edit]hench (comparative hencher, superlative henchest)
- (UK, slang, MLE) Big, strong, and muscular.
- He's well hench.
- That's a seriously hench doorman.
- 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[1]:
- 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.
Synonyms
[edit]- (muscular): buff, enormous, swoll; see also Thesaurus:strapping or Thesaurus:large
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