quean
Example Sentences
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"May be he is her coosin; but coosins are nae that sib that a weedow is to be hailed aboot jist ane as though she were ony quean at a fair."
From The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
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 James Fenimore Cooper
Gulbeyaz was an empress, but had been Perhaps as wretched if a peasants quean.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
He was in a crunkle o' green brae, a wee below the chaipel, a' by his lee lane, and lowped and flang and danced like a daft quean at a waddin'.
"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 Sir Walter Scott