quean
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 5
Definition of quean
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(archaic)A woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute.
“Rahab, that harlot, began to be a professed quean at ten years of age […]”
“So ended Lauretta her song, to which all hearkened attentively, though not all interpreted it alike. Some were inclined to give it a moral after the Milanese fashion, to wit, that a good porker was better than a pretty quean.”
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noun
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(archaic)A woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute.
“Rahab, that harlot, began to be a professed quean at ten years of age […]”
“So ended Lauretta her song, to which all hearkened attentively, though not all interpreted it alike. Some were inclined to give it a moral after the Milanese fashion, to wit, that a good porker was better than a pretty quean.”
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(Scotland)A young woman, a girl; a daughter.
“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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English quene (“young, robust woman”), from Old English cwene (“woman, female serf”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwenā, from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (“woman”). Doublet of gyne and…
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From Middle English quene (“young, robust woman”), from Old English cwene (“woman, female serf”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwenā, from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (“woman”). Doublet of gyne and queen. Cognate with Dutch kween (“a barren woman, a barren cow”), Low German quene (“barren cow, heifer”), German Kone (“wife”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Icelandic kona (“woman”), Gothic 𐌵𐌹𐌽𐍉 (qinō, “woman”), 𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃 (qēns, “wife”).
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