cuckquean
See also: cuck quean
English
WOTD – 5 May 2012
Alternative forms
- cuck quean
- cucquean
- cuckqueen, cuck queen
Etymology
Blend of cuckold + quean (“disreputable woman”). The verb sense is derived from the noun sense.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkʌk.kwiːn/
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Noun
cuckquean (plural cuckqueans)
- (sexuality) A woman who has an unfaithful husband.
- Synonyms: cuckcake, hotwife
- Coordinate terms: cuckold, hothusband, bull; (obsolete) cot-quean, (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, reprint edition (fiction), 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 The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, retrieved 12 September 2012:
- 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.
- (paraphilia) A woman who is attracted to or aroused by the sexual infidelity of a partner.
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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 — see also cuckold