cuckquean

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  1. A woman whose husband is false to her: correlative to cuckold. Celia shall be no cuckqueane, my heire no hegger. Marston, What you Will, iii. 1. Cucquean Juno's fury. Quarles, Emblems, i. 5.

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  • Beaumanoir, and no one shall know who has killed the cuckquean of the —  The Golden Dog
  • His cuckquean she is; his wife she is not and never shall be! —  The Golden Dog
  • A wandering crone, lowly form of an immortal serving her conqueror and her gay betrayer, their common cuckquean, a messenger from the secret morning. —  Ulysses
 

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  1. Also written cucquean, cuckqueane; from cuck(old) + quean; prob. as a modification of cotqucan.
 

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