different between cuckquean vs quean
cuckquean
English
Alternative forms
- cucquean
Etymology
Blend of cuckold +? quean (“disreputable woman”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?k.kwi?n/
Noun
cuckquean (plural cuckqueans)
- A woman who has an unfaithful husband.
- Coordinate terms: cuckold, (archaic) wittol
- (fetish) A woman who is attracted to or aroused by the sexual infidelity of a partner.
Translations
Verb
cuckquean (third-person singular simple present cuckqueans, present participle cuckqueaning, simple past and past participle cuckqueaned)
- (transitive) To make a woman into a cuckquean.
Translations
cuckquean From the web:
quean
English
Alternative forms
- quene (obsolete)
- queane (obsolete)
- quine (Scotland)
Etymology
From Middle English quene (“young, robust woman”), from Old English cwene (“woman, female serf”), from Proto-Germanic *kwen? (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *g??n (“woman”). Cognate with Dutch kween (“a barren woman, a barren cow”), Low German quene (“barren cow, heifer”), German Kon (“wife”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Icelandic kona (“woman”), Gothic ???????????????? (qin?, “woman”), ???????????????? (q?ns, “wife”). More at queen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kwi?n/
- Homophone: queen
Noun
quean (plural queans)
- A woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute. [from 10th c.]
- 1936: Like the Phoenix by Anthony Bertram
- However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie--did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.
- 1936: Like the Phoenix by Anthony Bertram
- (Scotland) A young woman, a girl; a daughter. [from 15th c.]
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 30:
- Forbye the two queans there was the son, John Gordon, as coarse a devil as you'd meet, he'd already had two-three queans in trouble and him but barely eighteen years old.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 30:
Derived terms
- cuckquean
Anagrams
- quena
Scots
Alternative forms
- quine (Doric)
Etymology
From Old English cwene, from Proto-Germanic *kwen? (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *g??n (“woman”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kwin/, /kwen/, /kw?in/
Noun
quean (plural queans)
- young woman, girl
- daughter
- maidservant
- female sweetheart
- (Shetland) A ram incapable of procreation, a hermaphrodite sheep.
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