quean

英 [kwiːn]美 [kwen]

n. 妓女；轻佻女人

中文词源

quean 轻佻的女人

来自quean 的拼写异体，词义产生分化。

英文词源

quean

quean: see gynaecology

quean (n.)

"young, robust woman," Old English cwene "woman," also "female serf, hussy, prostitute" (as in portcwene "public woman"), from Proto-Germanic *kwenon (cognates: Old Saxon quan, Old High German quena, Old Norse kona, Gothic qino "wife, woman"); see queen. Popular 16c.-17c. in sense "hussy." Sense of "effeminate homosexual" is recorded from 1935, especially in Australian slang.

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