Associations to the word «Gretchen»

Wiktionary

GRETCHEN, proper noun. A female given name of German origin; a pet form of Margaret.
GRETCHEN, proper noun. Heroine of the play Faust by Goethe.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope