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单词 quean
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Definition of quean in English:

quean

noun 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. 1.1 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.

Origin

Old English cwene 'woman', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kween 'barren cow', from an Indo-European root shared by Greek gunē.

Rhymes

Aberdeen, 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:

quean

nounkwēn
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. 1.1 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.

Origin

Old English cwene ‘woman’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kween ‘barren cow’, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek gunē.

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