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Definition of Quean
1. n. A woman; a young or unmarried woman; a girl.
Definition of Quean
1. Noun. (archaic) A woman; female person, considered without regard to qualities or position: hence generally in a slighting use. ¹
2. Noun. (archaic) An impudent woman; a prostitute. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Quean
1. a harlot [n -S] - See also: harlot
Medical Definition of Quean
1. 1. A woman; a young or unmarried woman; a girl. 2. A low woman; a wench; a slut. "The dread of every scolding quean." Origin: Originally, a woman, AS. Cwene; akin to OS. Quena, OHG. Quena, Icel. Kona, Goth qin, and AS. Cwen, also to Gr. Woman, wife, Skr. Gna goddess. Cf. Queen. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quean
Literary usage of Quean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"Cock-quean, a female cuckold, or a wife whose husband goes with other women.
A beggar or cheat (Wright). Queene June, not a little wroth against her ..."
2. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"interfering in female business, я cot- quean, adding, " each of the sexes should
keep ... See quean. French law was the same as roturier. See Cotgrave. ..."
3. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"What did ye wi' your wedding ring, ye What did ye wi' the bridal ring — bridal
little cutty quean, О ? ..."
4. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"If once the virgin conscience PLAYS THE quean, We seldom after care to keep it
... Rabab, that harlot began to be a professed quean at ten years of age. ..."
5. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"Or to hear her in her spleen Callet like a hmter-quean. Hie catf allein jests
from hence are clear eiil'd. Prol. to Wily Beguiled. CALF-STAGES, >. ..."
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