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(archaic) A woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute. / (Scotland) A young woman, a girl; a daughter.

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quean

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Source Word

quean

IPA(Pronunciation)

/kwiːn/

archaic Scotland

Japanese Meaning

（古語）下劣な女性、または不遜で評判の悪い女性、売春婦。 / （スコットランド）若い女性、少女、娘。

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When word spread of her brazen behavior, the quean was shunned by the villagers.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼女の厚かましい振る舞いが広まると、その評判の悪い女性は村人たちから避けられた。

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(archaic) A woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute.

Rahab, that harlot, began to be a professed quean at ten years of age […]

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(Scotland) A young woman, a girl; a daughter.

Forbye the two queans there was the son, John Gordon, as coarse a devil as you'd meet, he'd already had two-three queans in trouble and him but barely eighteen years old.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

queans

（ plural ）

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