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hench¹

  • /hɛnt͡ʃ/

Rhymes with -ɛntʃ

Where it comes from

Variant of haunch.

noun henches

  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.

verb henches · henching · henched

  1. Scotland To halt or limp.

hench²

  • /hɛnt͡ʃ/

Rhymes with -ɛntʃ

Where it comes from

Clipping of henchman.

verb henches · henching · henched

  1. 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 hencher · henchest

  1. UK, slang Big, strong, and muscular. He's well hench.

    Similar: buff

  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.

Similar: enormous, swoll, large

Hench³

Where it comes from

Possibly a variant of Hinch.

proper noun Henches

  1. A surname.

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adjective

Similar: enormous, swoll, large

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@misc{hench_2026,
  title = {hench},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hench},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}