Hench

//hɛnt͡ʃ// adj, name, noun, verb, slang

adj, name, noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The narrow side of chimney stack, a haunch.
  2. 2
    The side of an arch from the topmost part (crown) to the bottommost part (impost).
  3. 3
    A limp; lameness. Scotland
Verb
  1. 1
    To halt or limp. Scotland
  2. 2
    To be a henchman or henchwoman, usually for a supervillain.

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Big, strong, and muscular. UK, slang

    "He's well hench."

  2. 2
    Impressive, good, cool. Multicultural-London-English, UK, slang

    "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."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Synonyms

All synonyms
bigboxcarbrobdingnagianbuffbuffbuilt like a brick shithouse

Example

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"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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Variant of haunch.

Etymology 2

Clipping of henchman.

Etymology 3

Possibly a variant of Hinch.

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