cuckquean
English
WOTD – 5 May 2012
Alternative forms
- cucquean
Etymology
Blend of cuckold + quean (“disreputable woman”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkʌk.kwiːn/
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun
cuckquean (plural cuckqueans)
- A woman who has an unfaithful husband.
- Coordinate terms: cuckold, (archaic) wittol
- 1562, John Heywood, The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A.D. 1562), Reprint edition, Spenser Society, published 1867, page 62:
- Ye make hir a cookqueane.
- 1897, William Kirby, “Weird Sisters”, in The Golden Dog (Fiction), Reprint edition, Echo Library, published 2009, →ISBN, page 289:
- Yes, that's her name! His cuckquean she is; his wife she is not and never shall be!
- 2007 September 13, Judith Warner, “Horned and Scorned”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-09-12:
- 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; in the post-feminist age, ...
- 2010, Robert K. Tanenbaum, Betrayed, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 4:
- 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.
- (fetish) A woman who is attracted to or aroused by the sexual infidelity of a partner.
Translations
woman who has an unfaithful husband
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Verb
cuckquean (third-person singular simple present cuckqueans, present participle cuckqueaning, simple past and past participle cuckqueaned)
- (transitive) To make a woman into a cuckquean.
Translations
To make a woman into a cuckquean
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