quean
Example Sentences
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It should be noted that E. queen is not precisely the same word as E. quean.
From A Concise Dictionary of Middle English From A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew
Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here's to the widow of fifty; Here's to the flaunting, extravagant quean, And here's to the housewife that's thrifty.
From Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett
"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."
From The Monastery by Sir Walter Scott
From commère comes Scot. cummer or kimmer— "A canty quean was Kate, and a special cummer of my ain."
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
It’s yon flaysome, graceless quean, that’s witched our lad, wi’ her bold een and her forrard ways—till—Nay! it fair brusts my heart!
From Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
