Quean
[kween] /kwin/
noun
1.
an overly forward, impudent woman; shrew; hussy.
2.
a prostitute.
3.
British Dialect. a girl or young woman, especially a robust one.
/kwiːn/
noun
1.
(archaic)
2.
(Scot) a young unmarried woman or girl
n.
“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.
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