Meanings
wincest1
- archaicindicativepresentsecond personsingularsecond-person singular simple present indicative of wince
Poor is thy love who wincest at the smart / Thou know'st to wring from out dear looks and words / Given to another, making them sharp swords / Wherewith to prick and goad thy hungry heart.
1868, George Auster, “Jealousy”, in Abel Holt, and other poems, A. W. Bennett
wincest2
- slanguncountablelifestyleIncest, usually of two siblings.
Oh I see, so if they were over the age of 18 you wouldn't be having "wincest" with them as you put it, huh?
2009 October 22, Onideus Mad Hatter [username], “Re: Tomba's pedo website ...ripe for hacking”, in alt.support.boy-lovers (Usenet)1 more example
5. Powerpuff Girls wincest (It's basically an act of hot sex between family members, which makes it WINcest according to www.urbandictionary.com).
2009 October 27, Ashleigh Johnson, “Playboy steals the Internet's idea”, in The Daily Titan, volume 85, number 27, California State University, Fullerton, page 6
Wincest3
- slanglifestyleThe non-canonical incestuous homoerotic relationship of the fictional brothers Dean and Sam Winchester from the television series Supernatural.
Supernatural fandom features some of the more controversial iterations of slash, predominantly Wincest (the incestuous coupling of the show's protagonists, the Winchester brothers), […]
2013, Henry Jenkins & Suzanne Scott, "Textual Poachers, Twenty Years Later", in Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Routledge (2013), page xxxiii2 more examples
Wincest stories often take their transgressive cues from the text itself; often when Sam and Dean are seducing each other in Wincest stories, the more reluctant of the two is convinced to engage in the relationship when the other reiterates that they are already outsiders in society, already isolated from the “normality” of their world—why should the prohibition of incest stand in their way when they have already broken so many other laws?
2009, Emily Turner, "Scary Just Got Sexy: Transgression in Supernatural and Its Fanfiction", in In the Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural (ed. Supernatural.tv), BenBella Books (2009), page 159Instead, she suggests, the romanticized, paratextual Wincest slash fiction offers Sam and Dean a redemptive happiness that they are perpetually denied by the show's writers both in a diegetic sense (via Chuck Shurley, the show's writer/prophet who publishes novels based on the boys' adventures) and in a non-diegetic sense (via Eric Kripke, Sera Gamble, and the show's returning writers).
2011, Darren Elliott-Smith, “'Go Be Gay for That Poor, Dead Intern:' Conversion Fantasies and Gay Anxieties in Supernatural”, in Stacey Abbott, David Lavery, editors, TV Goes to Hell: An Unofficial Road Map of, Supernatural , ECW Press, →ISBN, page 106
Origin
wincest · noun
Blend of win + incest, influenced by the slash ship name Wincest.
Full word history & related roots →Wincest · proper noun
From Win(chester) + -cest. Possibly influenced by wincest.
Full word history & related roots →Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with wincest
All rhymes →Sounds the same
Cite this entry
wincest. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wincest
“wincest.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wincest. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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