tench

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛnt͡ʃ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛntʃ

Etymology 1

From Middle English tenche, from Old French tenche, from Late Latin tinca.

Noun

tench (plural tench or tenches)

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
A tench (Tinca tinca)
  1. A species of freshwater game fish, Tinca tinca.
Translations

Further reading

  • tench”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Etymology 2

Contraction.

Noun

tench (plural tenches)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A penitentiary.
References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary