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单词 cuckquean
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cuckqueann.

Forms: 1500s cook-, 1500s–1600s cock-, cuc-, 1600s cuck(e-; also 1500s cut-, 1600s quot-.
Etymology: < stem of cuck-old + quean n.
Obsolete.
A female cuckold.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [noun] > adultery > wife dishonoured by husband's adultery
cuckquean1546
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vi. sig. Iii You make hir a cookqueyn [1556 cookqueyne, 1562 cookqueane].
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vi. f. 77v Queene Progne was a cucqueane made by meanes of hir.
1613 H. Austin tr. Ovid Scourge of Venus sig. C6 That hast made her a quot-queane shamefully.
1615 T. Heywood Foure Prentises in Wks. (1874) II. 216 Hee'd make his wife a Cucke-queane.
a1652 R. Brome City Wit iv. i. sig. E, in Five New Playes (1653) To bee made Cuckqueane by such a Cockscombe.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. i. [Telemachus] 14 A wandering crone,..their common cuckquean.

Derivatives

ˈcuckquean v. Obsolete (transitive) to make a cuckquean of.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [verb (transitive)] > defile by adultery > dishonour wife by adultery
cuckquean1592
1592 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) viii. xli. 180 Came I from France..to be Cuckquean'd heere?
a1652 R. Brome Mad Couple Well Match'd iii. i. sig. Ev, in Five New Playes (1653) You can doe him no wrong..to cuckold him, for assure your selfe hee cuckqueans you.
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