tench
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See also: Tench
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /tɛnt͡ʃ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛntʃ
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English tenche, from Old French tenche, from Late Latin tinca.
Noun
[edit]tench (plural tench or tenches)
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- A species of freshwater game fish, Tinca tinca.
Translations
[edit]species of freshwater game fish
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Further reading
[edit]- “tench”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Etymology 2
[edit]Contraction.
Noun
[edit]tench (plural tenches)
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A penitentiary.
References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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