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quean

/kween/US // kwin //UK // (kwiːn) //

队伍,奎安,排队,奎恩

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an overly forward, impudent woman; shrew; hussy.
    • : a prostitute.
    • : British Dialect. a girl or young woman, especially a robust one.

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Examples

  • Call the quean up; if my men want shoe-thread, Ill swinge her in a stirrup.

  • You come hither to steal my glasses, and then counterfeit you are going to your quean's.

  • A subtle quean as any in this town, your neighbour here, dame Chat.Gammer.

  • "Only the pictur' o' some randy quean," his father answered, chucking away at the inanimate chin.

  • She went so far as to say, that it was a shame such a drunken quean should have a Christian burial.