Athanasian wench, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Athanasian wench n.

[a pun on the Athanasian Creed, which begins with the words ‘quicumque vult’, thus cf. quicumque vult n.]

a promiscuous young woman, a prostitute, ‘a forward girl, ready to oblige every man that shall ask her’ (Grose, 1785).

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1793		Sporting Mag. May II 117/2: ‘I fancied,’ said the Doctor, ‘there was something Athanasian in her looks [...] She seemed to be a Quicumque vult.’.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.