Quean
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /kwiːn/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Quean is a noun meaning (Scotland) A young woman, a girl; a daughter.
Meaning
(Scotland) A young woman, a girl; a daughter.
More Meanings
- (archaic) A woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute.
Example Sentences
Rahab, that harlot, began to be a professed quean at ten years of age […]
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.
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.
Word Forms
- queans
- quene
- queane
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wench, whore, wanton, quail, cuntwhore, puta.
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