Legal Definition and Related Resources of Quean
Meaning of Quean
A worthless woman; a strumpet. The meaning of this word, which is now seldom used, is said not to be well ascertained. 2 Rolle, Abr. 296; Bac. Abr. “Slander” (U 3).
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Grammar
This term is a noun.
Etimology of Quean
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young, robust woman, Old English cwene “woman,” also “female serf, hussy, prostitute” (as in portcwene “public woman”), from Proto-Germanic *kwenon (source also of 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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