cuckquean
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Blend of cuckold + quean (“disreputable woman”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cuckquean (plural cuckqueans)
- A woman who has an unfaithful husband.
- 1562, John Heywood, The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A.D. 1562), Reprint edition, Spenser Society, published 1867, page 62:
- Ye make hir a cookqueane.
- 2007 September 13, Judith Warner, “Horned and Scorned”, in New York Times[2], retrieved 2012-09-12:
- A formidable woman of real power and prestige, she emerged from the Monica affair much more cuckold than cuckquean. Her husband’s perfidy did, in a sense, disturb the natural order of things; in the post-feminist age, ...
Translations
woman who has an unfaithful husband
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Verb
cuckquean (third-person singular simple present cuckqueans, present participle cuckqueaning, simple past and past participle cuckqueaned)
- (transitive) To make a woman into a cuckquean.
Translations
To make a woman into a cuckquean
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