quean

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute. archaic
    — Rahab, that harlot, began to be a professed quean at ten years of age […]
  2. A young woman, a girl; a daughter. Scotland
    — 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.

词形变化

queans plural quine alternative,Scotland quene alternative,obsolete queane alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
cot-quean cuckquean queanie queanish

词源

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.
Cognate with Dutch kween (“a barren woman, a barren cow”), Low German quene (“barren cow, heifer”), German Kone (“wife”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Icelandic kona (“woman”), Gothic 𐌵𐌹𐌽𐍉 (qinō, “woman”), 𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃 (qēns, “wife”).
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