Great Wen
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English
Etymology
UK 1820s. great (“very big”) + wen (“a cyst on the skin”). Coined by William Cobbett.
Proper noun
- (UK, derogatory, informal, with "the") The city of London.
- 1830, William Cobbett, Rural Rides:
- But, what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, 'the metropolis of the empire?'
- 1962, C. T. Smith, “The South-East Midlands”, in J. B. Mitchell, editor, Great Britain: Geographical Essays, page 135:
- London is of vital importance to the communications, industry and towns of the south-east Midlands as a whole, though the proximity of 'the Great Wen' may be partly responsible for the fact that no town within it has a population of more than 130,000.
- 2014 June 2, D.K, “Let the Great Wen get greater still”, in The Economist: