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wen noun [ wɛn ]

• a boil or other swelling or growth on the skin, especially a sebaceous cyst.
• a very large or overcrowded city.
• "the great wen of London"
Origin: Old English wen(n), of unknown origin; compare with Low German wehne ‘tumour, wart’.

wen noun

• old-fashioned spelling of wynn.


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