Wiktionary - Recent changes [en]: quean

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quean Dec 30th 2012, 10:27 ‎Noun: ← Older revision Revision as of 10:27, 30 December 2012 Line 16: Line 16:   {{en-noun}}   {{en-noun}}     − # {{archaic}} A [[woman]]; [[female]] person, considered without regard to qualities or position: hence generally in a slighting use. + # A [[woman]], now especially an [[impudent]] or disreputable [[woman]]; a [[prostitute]]. {{defdate|from 10th c.}} − # {{archaic}} An [[impudent]] [[woman]]; a [[prostitute]]. + # {{Scotland}} A young [[woman]], a [[girl]]; a [[daughter]]. {{defdate|from 15th c.}}   + #*'''1932''', {{w|Lewis Grassic Gibbon}}, ''Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair''), p. 30:   + #*: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.       ====Derived terms====   ====Derived terms====

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