quean

Example Sentences

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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 Weekley, Ernest

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 Brontë, Emily

Deil a wig has a provost of Fairport worn sin' auld Provost Jervie's time—and he had a quean of a servant-lass that dressed it herself, wi' the doup o' a candle and a drudging-box.

From The Antiquary — Volume 01 by Scott, Walter, Sir

Thou talkest like a foolish quean that has been frightened by the fluttering of her own poultry.

From The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons by Cooper, James Fenimore

"I heard something a while syne about his drawing up wi' a bonny quean about the Pleasaunts, and that it was a' Wilson could do to keep him frae marrying her."

From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Scott, Walter, Sir