wan

Meanings

Adjective

• Pale, sickly-looking.
• Dim, faint.
• Bland, uninterested.

Noun

• The quality of being wan; wanness.
• Pronunciation spelling of one
• A girl or woman.

Verb

• Past of win.

Origin

• From Middle English wan, wanne, from Old English ƿann, from Proto-Germanic *wannaz, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old Frisian wann, wonn.
• eye dialect spelling of one. Sense 2 (“girl or woman”) possibly as a result of the phrase your wan as a counterpart to your man.
• An inflection form.