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Jul
5
2009
Wended (verb): "To direct oneself, to proceed, to go"
Source: Jonathan Lethem's novel You Don't Love Me Yet, which I just finished, used this word an awful lot. I felt like an imbecile not knowing what it meant.
Your challenge and mine: Use this word in casual conversation with someone other than your lover or spouse and see if they know what you mean.
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I've never heard the word out of the phrase "Wending its/your/his/etc. way". Is wend ever used without way?
Also, I think "wend" is the word - "wended" is just the past tense of "wend".
Posted by: Jessa | July 05, 2009 at 10:53 PM