单词 | cuckquean |
释义 | † cuckqueann. 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. DerivativesΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1546 |
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