queane
queane is the archaic spelling of quean.
Meaning of quean
Noun
quean (plural queans)
- A woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute.
- Rahab, that harlot, began to be a professed quean at ten years of age […]1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III...
- A young woman, a girl; a daughter.
- 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.1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 30
Forms of queane
| plural | queanes |
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Questions about queane
- What is queane the archaic spelling of?
- Queane is the archaic spelling of quean.
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