Definitions for queans

queans quean

Spelling: [kween]
IPA: /kwin/

Queans is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in queans (aenqsu).

Definitions for queans

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 queans

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 queans

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for queans
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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