English-Thai Dictionary
quean
N หญิง โสเภ ณี prostitute whore strumpet
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
QUEAN
n. A worthless woman; a slut; a strumpet. [Not in common use. ]
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
QUEAN
Quean, n. Etym: [Originally, a woman, AS. cwene; akin to OS. quena, OHG. quena, Icel. kona, Goth qin, and AS. cwén, also to Gr. gna goddess. Cf. Queen. ]
1. A woman; a young or unmarried woman; a girl. [Obs. or Scot. ] Chaucer.
2. A low woman; a wench; a slut. "The dread of every scolding quean. " Gay.
New American Oxford Dictionary
quean
quean |kwēn kwin | ▶noun archaic an impudent or ill-behaved girl or woman. • a prostitute. ORIGIN Old English cwene ‘woman, ’ of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kween ‘barren cow, ’ from an Indo-European root shared by Greek gunē ‘woman. ’
Oxford Dictionary
quean
quean |kwiːn | ▶noun archaic an impudent or badly behaved girl or woman. • a prostitute. 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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