Quean

According to the Miriam Webster dictionary, quean (pronounced kwen) is from the Old English cwene meaning woman or queen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A woman with a shape and face like Lakshmibai's hadn't let it go to waste in four years 'widowhood (after being married to some prancing old quean, too), not with the stallions of her palace guard available at the crook of her little finger. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And I have seen the life of Colin Ironfist well epitomized in a smaller compass than is here employed to show this quean well spanked. ❋ Superversive (2007)

“Did I know Kate Happer?” replied the widow; “as well as the beggar knows his dish — a canty quean was Kate, and a special cummer of my ain maybe twenty years syne.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

“And I promise you,” said the laundress, “my young master will stick nothing to call an honest woman slut and quean, if there be but a speck of soot upon his band-collar.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ye maun leave this quean — the like of her is ower light company for you. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ae quean had noticed something under his arm, but she took it for the pipes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I must get rid of this quean as fast as I can; and I must see her safe. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He began, however, with considerable austerity of manner. — “And how now, saucy quean!” said the medical man of office; “what have you to say why I should not order you to be ducked in the loch, for lifting your hand to the man in my presence?” ❋ Unknown (2008)

“You may give quarters to such cattle if you like it yourself, Harry Wynd; but the same house shall not quarter that trumpery quean and me, and of that you may assure yourself.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

“Bloodshed and murder!” exclaimed the Lady, “what does the quean mean? — if you speak not plain out, you shall have something you will scarce be thankful for.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

Rahab, that harlot, began to be a professed quean at ten years of age, and was but fifteen when she hid the spies, as ❋ Unknown (2007)

Ambubalarum collegia, &c. Trimalcionis topanta in Petronius recta in caelum abiit, went right to heaven: a, base quean, [2235] thou wouldst have scorned once in thy misery to have a penny from her; and why? modio nummos metiit, she measured her money by the bushel. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Augustus orbis imperator uxorem expeteret, mallem tua esse meretrix quam orbis imperatrix; she had rather be his vassal, his quean, than the world's empress or queen. — non si me Jupiter ipse forte velit, — she would not change her love for Jupiter himself. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Vetustina bedridden quean, that art now skin and bones, ❋ Unknown (2007)

And this mad quean, after cracking like a pen-gun, and skirling like a pea-hen for the haill night, behoves just to hae hadden her tongue when her clavers might have dune some gude! ❋ Unknown (2007)

For there was a pavilion done of timber and board, and gaily painted and gilded, and out from that house was, as it were, a great cage of thin gilded bars, both walls and roof, just so wide apart as no one full-grown, carl or quean, could thrust through. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Octavia his own wife, a noble virtuous lady, and loved Acte, a base quean in respect. ❋ Unknown (2007)

O Antonia, thou seest [5706] what I am without, but within, God knows, a puddle of iniquity, a sink of sin, a pocky quean. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The rib, the rib, the quean of oldbyrdes, Sinya Sonyavitches! ❋ Unknown (2006)