wenchy

adj

American

obnoxious, condescending. Used par-ticularly of and by women, the term is based on a specifically American colloquial sense of 'wench' as a forward, shameless or troublesome female. (In archaic dialect usage in Britain, the word, deriving from an Old English word for a child, had for several centuries sig-nified a promiscuous or immoral woman.) By 2004 the words were being used in the UK as a generalised term of disapproval.