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wich

noun

Etymology

See which.

Definitions

  1. Alternative spelling of wych (“brine spring or well”).

  2. A wich town, particularly one of several former salt mining towns in Cheshire with a name…

    A wich town, particularly one of several former salt mining towns in Cheshire with a name ending -wich.

    • Droitwich was then clearly more important than any of the Cheshire wiches; indeed the two most northerly of them were reported in 1086 to be "utterly waste", while Nantwich farm was worth only £10 a year.

  3. Misspelling of which.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for wich. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA