English Explanatory Dictionary

Great Wen

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Derogatory name for London: the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom.

Word forms

Great Wen the Great Wen

Etymology

UK 1820s. From great (“very big”) + wen (“a cyst on the skin”). Coined by William Cobbett.

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