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cucquean

cucquean is the obsolete spelling of cuckquean.

Meaning of cuckquean

Noun

cuckquean (plural cuckqueans)

  1. A woman who has an unfaithful partner; (now often specifically), a woman aroused by the sexual infidelity of her partner.
    • Ye make hir a cookqueane.1562, John Heywood, The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A.D. 1562), reprint edition, Spenser Society, published 1867, page 62
    Synonyms:
    cot-quean, cucquean

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Forms of cucquean

pluralcucqueans

Questions about cucquean

What is cucquean the obsolete spelling of?
Cucquean is the obsolete spelling of cuckquean.

Words near cucquean in the dictionary

  1. cuckstools
  2. cucktard
  3. cucky
  4. cucoloris
  5. cucolorises
  6. cucquean
  7. cucqueans
  8. cucs
  9. cucujid
  10. cucujids
  11. cucujo

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