sentences:  The Middle English word "wicche" did not differentiate between feminine and masculine, however the masculine meaning became less common in Standard English, being replaced by words like "wizard" and "warlock".The modern spelling "witch" with the medial 't' first appears in the 16th century.In current colloquial English "witch" is almost exclusively applied to women, and the OED has "now only dialectal" for the masculine noun.