Dictionary

cuckquean en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (General-American) audio
• /ˈkʌk.kwiːn/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Blend of cuckold + quean (“disreputable woman”). The verb sense is derived from the noun sense.

Meanings

1. A woman who has an unfaithful partner; (now often specifically), a woman aroused by the sexual infidelity of her partner.
   • A wandering crone, lowly form of an immortal serving her conqueror and her gay betrayer, their common cuckquean, a messenger from the secret morning. 1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 14:
   • Ye make hir a cookqueane. 1562, John Heywood, The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A.D. 1562), reprint edition, Spenser Society, published 1867, page 62:
   • His cuckquean she is; his wife she is not and never shall be! 1897, William Kirby, “Weird Sisters”, in The Golden Dog, reprint edition (fiction), Echo Library, published 2009, →ISBN, page 289:
   • The rumors about his serial philandering had been out there for years, but a friendly liberal press had not tried very hard to confirm the allegations, and the missus was apparently resigned to the role of a stoic cuckquean. 2010, Robert K. Tanenbaum, Betrayed, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 4:
   • A formidable woman of real power and prestige, she emerged from the Monica affair much more cuckold than cuckquean. Her husband’s perfidy did, in a sense, disturb the natural order of things[…] 2007 September 13, Judith Warner, “Horned and Scorned”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, retrieved 12 Sep 2012:

Forms

Coordinates

bull · hothusband · cuckold

Hypernyms

cuckoldee · wife

Relateds

cuckold · cuckolder · cuckoldize · cuckqueanry

Synonyms

cot-quean · cot-quean · cucquean · cuckquean

Translations (3)

fr cocue (woman who has an unfaithful husband) · pt corna (woman who has an unfaithful husband) · it cornuta (woman who has an unfaithful husband)

cuckquean en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (General-American) audio
• /ˈkʌk.kwiːn/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Blend of cuckold + quean (“disreputable woman”). The verb sense is derived from the noun sense.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To make a woman into a cuckquean.

Forms

Translations (3)

ru наста́вить рога́ (To make a woman into a cuckquean) · vi cắm sừng (To make a woman into a cuckquean) · fi pettää (To make a woman into a cuckquean)