Definitions for quean

quean quean

Spelling: [kween]
IPA: /kwin/

Quean is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in quean (aenqu).

Definitions for quean

noun

  1. an overly forward, impudent woman; shrew; hussy.
  2. a prostitute.
  3. British Dialect. a girl or young woman, especially a robust one.

Origin of quean

before 1000; Middle English quene, Old English cwene; cognate with Middle Dutch quene, kone, Old Saxon, Old High German quena, Gothic qino Germanic *kwenōn-; akin to Old English cwēn woman, <

Examples for quean

There is many a quean in it fairer than I twice told, and not spoiled with weeping.

There is many a quean in it, fairer than I twice told, and not spoiled with weeping.

Ye maun leave this quean—the like of her is ower light company for you.

I must get rid of this quean as fast as I can; and I must see her safe.

A knave and a quean, a thief and a strumpet, a couple of beggars, a brace of baggages.

You come hither to steal my glasses, and then counterfeit you are going to your quean's.

The stronger or carl sex, as a man; the weaker or quean sex, as a girl; the unsexly things, as a stone.

Call the quean up; if my men want shoe-thread, Ill swinge her in a stirrup.

But gin that wasna a quean, ye canna deny but she luikit unco like ane, and no a blate (bashful) ane eyther.'

She could coax you to the buying like a Cumnock quean, and fleece you in the selling like the cadgers o' Kincardine.

Word Value for quean
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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