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quean

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5 lettersPronunciation /kwiːn/Sorted aenquStarts with QEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute.

Word origin

From Middle English quene (“young, robust woman”), from Old English cwene (“woman, female serf”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwenā, from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (“woman”). Doublet of gyne and queen.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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