quean

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“Like, we should be able to wear leggings without feeling like it’s a problem because guys will be staring at us,” student Quean Foster told a local NBC News affiliate.

From Washington Times

While the author of the “Anatomy of Melancholy” is still more unkind, for he says— “A filthy knave, a deformed quean, a crooked carcass, a maukin, a witch, a rotten post, a hedge-stake may be so set out and tricked up, that it shall make a fair show, as much enamour as the rest.”—Part iii. sect.

From Project Gutenberg

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 hersel’, wi’ the doup o’ a candle and a dredging box.

From Project Gutenberg

For the boatmen had scarce told us the matter, and that it was a man and a woman for stealing glazed windows out of housen, and that the man was hanged at daybreak, and the quean to be drowned, when lo; they did fling her off the bridge, and fell in the water not far from us.

From Project Gutenberg

There is many a quean in it, fairer than I twice told, and not spoiled with weeping.

From Project Gutenberg