Synonyms for quean

Grammar : Noun

Spell : kween

Phonetic Transcription : kwin

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Définition of quean

Origin : "young, robust woman," Old English cwene "woman," also "female serf, hussy, prostitute" (cf. portcwene "public woman"), from Proto-Germanic *kwenon (cf. Old Saxon quan, Old High German quena, Old Norse kona, Gothic qino "wife, woman"); see queen. Popular 16c.-17c. in sense "hussy." Sense of "effeminate homosexual" is recorded from 1935, especially in Australian slang.

As in slut : noun loose woman

Example sentences :

Ye maun leave this quean—the like of her is ower light company for you.
Extract from : « Red Gauntlet » by Sir Walter Scott

I must get rid of this quean as fast as I can; and I must see her safe.
Extract from : « The Fair Maid of Perth » by Sir Walter Scott

There is many a quean in it, fairer than I twice told, and not spoiled with weeping.
Extract from : « The Cloister and the Hearth » by Charles Reade

There is many a quean in it fairer than I twice told, and not spoiled with weeping.
Extract from : « The Cloister and the Hearth » by Charles Reade

You come hither to steal my glasses, and then counterfeit you are going to your quean's.
Extract from : « A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 10 (of 15) » by Various

But gin that wasna a quean, ye canna deny but she luikit unco like ane, and no a blate (bashful) ane eyther.'
Extract from : « Robert Falconer » by George MacDonald

Call the quean up; if my men want shoe-thread, Ill swinge her in a stirrup.
Extract from : « The Mermaid Series. Edited by H. Ellis. The best plays of the old dramatists. Thomas Dekker. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Ernest Rhys. » by Thomas Dekker

A knave and a quean, a thief and a strumpet, a couple of beggars, a brace of baggages.
Extract from : « The Mermaid Series. Edited by H. Ellis. The best plays of the old dramatists. Thomas Dekker. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Ernest Rhys. » by Thomas Dekker

She could coax you to the buying like a Cumnock quean, and fleece you in the selling like the cadgers o' Kincardine.
Extract from : « The House with the Green Shutters » by George Douglas Brown

The stronger or carl sex, as a man; the weaker or quean sex, as a girl; the unsexly things, as a stone.
Extract from : « An Outline of English Speech-craft » by William Barnes

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