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Definition of quean in English: queannoun kwiːnkwēn archaic 1An impudent or badly behaved girl or woman. 〈古〉厚颜无耻的女人；轻佻女子 Example sentencesExamples - Catherine is ‘greatest of all sovereigns and whores’ and also a ‘modern Amazon and Queen of queans’.
Synonyms impudent person, insignificant person, gnat, insect - 1.1 A prostitute.
妓女 Example sentencesExamples - The actor, cannily aware of the trap set by this modern dress version, resists translating the mannerisms into those of just another gay quean.
- It included the insults jade, quean, baggage, harlot, drab, filth, flirt, gill, trull, dirtyheels, draggletail, flap, naughty-pack, slut, squirt and strumpet.
- Gone too are the painted queans and the respectable gentlemen in evening dress who pursued trade - for sex, for violence, for love, for money, for something to tell their mates about.
OriginOld English cwene 'woman', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kween 'barren cow', from an Indo-European root shared by Greek gunē. RhymesAberdeen, Amin, aquamarine, baleen, bean, been, beguine, Benin, between, canteen, careen, Claudine, clean, contravene, convene, cuisine, dean, Dene, e'en, eighteen, fascine, fedayeen, fifteen, figurine, foreseen, fourteen, Francine, gean, gene, glean, gombeen, green, Greene, Halloween, intervene, Janine, Jean, Jeannine, Jolene, Kean, keen, Keene, Ladin, langoustine, latrine, lean, limousine, machine, Maclean, magazine, Malines, margarine, marine, Mascarene, Massine, Maxine, mean, Medellín, mesne, mien, Moline, moreen, mujahedin, Nadine, nankeen, Nazarene, Nene, nineteen, nougatine, obscene, palanquin, peen, poteen, preen, Rabin, Racine, ramin, ravine, routine, Sabine, saltine, sardine, sarin, sateen, scene, screen, seen, serene, seventeen, shagreen, shebeen, sheen, sixteen, spleen, spring-clean, squireen, Steen, submarine, supervene, tambourine, tangerine, teen, terrine, thirteen, transmarine, treen, tureen, Tyrrhene, ultramarine, umpteen, velveteen, wean, ween, Wheen, yean Definition of quean in US English: queannounkwēn archaic 1An impudent or ill-behaved girl or woman. 〈古〉厚颜无耻的女人；轻佻女子 Example sentencesExamples - Catherine is ‘greatest of all sovereigns and whores’ and also a ‘modern Amazon and Queen of queans’.
Synonyms impudent person, insignificant person, gnat, insect - 1.1 A prostitute.
妓女 Example sentencesExamples - It included the insults jade, quean, baggage, harlot, drab, filth, flirt, gill, trull, dirtyheels, draggletail, flap, naughty-pack, slut, squirt and strumpet.
- Gone too are the painted queans and the respectable gentlemen in evening dress who pursued trade - for sex, for violence, for love, for money, for something to tell their mates about.
- The actor, cannily aware of the trap set by this modern dress version, resists translating the mannerisms into those of just another gay quean.
OriginOld English cwene ‘woman’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kween ‘barren cow’, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek gunē. |