• Cuckquean

    Pronunciation

    • UK and UK IPA: /ˈkÊŒk.wiːn/

    Origin

    From cuckold + quean

    Full definition of cuckquean

    Noun

    cuckquean

    (plural cuckqueans)
    1. A woman who has an unfaithful husband.
      • 1562 , John Heywood , The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A.D. 1562) , Ye make hir a cookqueane.
      • 1897 , William Kirby , The Golden Dog Chapter Weird Sisters , Yes, that's her name! His cuckquean she is; his wife she is not and never shall be!
      • , 2007-09-13, Judith Warner, Horned and Scorned, 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, ...
      • 2010 , Robert K. Tanenbaum , Betrayed Chapter , The rumors about his serial philandering had been out there for years, but a friendly liberal press had not tried very hard to confirm the allegations, and the missus was apparently resigned to the role of a stoic cuckquean.

    Verb

    1. (transitive) To make a woman into a cuckquean.
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