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quean

[ kween ]

noun

  1. Archaic. an overly forward, impudent woman; shrew; hussy.
  2. Archaic. a prostitute.
  3. British Dialect. Sometimes quine. a girl or young woman, especially a robust one.


quean

/ 办飞颈藧苍 /

noun

  1. archaic.
    1. a boisterous, impudent, or disreputable woman
    2. a prostitute; whore
  2. a young unmarried woman or girl
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 辩耻别补苍路颈蝉丑 adjective
  • 辩耻别补苍路濒颈办别 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of quean1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English quene, Old English cwene; cognate with Middle Dutch quene, kone, Old Saxon, Old High German quena, Gothic qino, from unattested Germanic 办飞别苍艒苍-; akin to Old English 肠飞脓苍 鈥渨oman, queen鈥 ( queen )
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of quean1

Old English cwene; related to Old Saxon, Old High German quena, Gothic qino, Old Norse kona, Greek 驳耻苍脓 woman. Compare queen
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Example Sentences

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鈥淟ike, we should be able to wear leggings without feeling like it鈥檚 a problem because guys will be staring at us,鈥 student Quean Foster told a local NBC News affiliate.

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While the author of the 鈥淎natomy of Melancholy鈥 is still more unkind, for he says鈥 鈥淎 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.鈥濃擯art iii. sect.

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Deil a wig has a provost of Fairport worn sin鈥 auld Provost Jervie鈥檚 time鈥攁nd he had a quean of a servant-lass that dressed it hersel鈥, wi鈥 the doup o鈥 a candle and a dredging box.

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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.

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There is many a quean in it, fairer than I twice told, and not spoiled with weeping.

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