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quean
[kween]
noun
Archaic.Ìýan overly forward, impudent woman; shrew; hussy.
Archaic.Ìýa prostitute.
British Dialect.ÌýSometimes quine a girl or young woman, especially a robust one.
quean
/ °ì·É¾±Ë²Ô /
noun
archaicÌý
a boisterous, impudent, or disreputable woman
a prostitute; whore
a young unmarried woman or girl
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- queanish adjective
- queanlike adjective
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of quean1
Example Sentences
“Like, we should be able to wear leggings without feeling like it’s a problem because guys will be staring at us,†student Quean Foster told a local NBC News affiliate.
While the author of the “Anatomy of Melancholy†is still more unkind, for he says— “A filthy knave, a deformed quean, a crooked carcass, a maukin, a witch, a rotten post, a hedge-stake may be so set out and tricked up, that it shall make a fair show, as much enamour as the rest.â€â€”Part iii. sect.
Deil a wig has a provost of Fairport worn sin’ auld Provost Jervie’s time—and he had a quean of a servant-lass that dressed it hersel’, wi’ the doup o’ a candle and a dredging box.
For the boatmen had scarce told us the matter, and that it was a man and a woman for stealing glazed windows out of housen, and that the man was hanged at daybreak, and the quean to be drowned, when lo; they did fling her off the bridge, and fell in the water not far from us.
There is many a quean in it, fairer than I twice told, and not spoiled with weeping.
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