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† ˈcuckquean, n. Obs.
Forms: 6 cook-, 6–7 cock-, cuc-, 7 cuck(e-; also 6 cut-, 7 quot-.
[f. stem of cuck-old + quean.]
A female cuckold.
1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 62 Ye make hir a cookqueane. 1565Golding Ovid's Met. vi. (1593) 146 Queene Progne was a cutqueane made by meanes of her. 1614Sco. Venus (1876) 39 That hast made her a quot-queane shamefully. 1615Heywood Foure Prentises Wks. 1874 II. 216 Hee'd make his wife a Cucke-queane. a1652Brome City Wit iv. i, To bee made Cuckqueane by such a Cockscombe. 1922Joyce Ulysses 15 A wandering crone..their common cuckquean.
Hence † ˈcuckquean v. trans., to make a cuckquean of.
1592Warner Alb. Eng. viii. xli. (1612) 199 Came I from France..to be Cuckquean'd heere? a1652Brome Mad Couple iii. i, You can doe him no wrong..to cuckold him, for assure your selfe hee cuckqueans you. |