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hench en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio
• /hɛnt͡ʃ/

Etymology

Variant of haunch.

Meanings

1. The narrow side of chimney stack, a haunch.
2. The side of an arch from the topmost part (crown) to the bottommost part (impost).
3. (Scotland) A limp; lameness.

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hench en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio
• /hɛnt͡ʃ/

Etymology

Variant of haunch.

Meanings

1. (Scotland) To halt or limp.

Forms

hench en · ADJ · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio
• /hɛnt͡ʃ/

Etymology

Clipping of henchman.

Meanings

1. (UK, slang) Big, strong, and muscular.
   • That's a seriously hench doorman.
   • He's well hench.
2. (Multicultural-London-English, UK, slang) Impressive, good, cool.
   • 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. 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:

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Relateds

henchwench · henchfolk

Synonyms

large · swoll · enormous · buff (muscular)

hench en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio
• /hɛnt͡ʃ/

Etymology

Clipping of henchman.

Meanings

1. To be a henchman or henchwoman, usually for a supervillain.
   • [Clayton Cole:] Sully? Hey, how you been, man? Haven't seen you since... [Sully:] Since we henched for the Owl. 2016, Christos Gage, Civil War II: Amazing Spider-Man, number 1, →ISBN, page 31:
   • Candace Flynn (Ashley Tisdale): I told you! You're my henchman. Hench or something. / Stacy Hirano (Kelly Hu): Oh, no. You did not just tell me to hench. 2010 May 3, Jon Colton Barry, Piero Piluso, “The Beak”, in Phineas and Ferb, season 2, episode 27:

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