Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A woman whose husband is false to her: correlative to cuckold.
Wiktionary
- n. A woman who has an unfaithful husband.
- v. transitive To make a woman into a cuckquean.
Etymologies
- From cuckold + quean (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“In a classic cuckquean fantasy, the wife would then jill off, right in front of her sexy tormenters, simultaneously humiliated and exhilarated.”
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“A formidable woman of real power and prestige, she emerged from the Monica affair much more cuckold than cuckquean.”
“A wandering crone, lowly form of an immortal serving her conqueror and her gay betrayer, their common cuckquean, a messenger from the secret morning.”
“In his 1922 novel, Ulysses, James Joyce retrieved it from antiquity: “her gay betrayer, their common cuckquean.””
“His cuckquean she is; his wife she is not and never shall be!”
“Beaumanoir, and no one shall know who has killed the cuckquean of the”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cuckquean’.
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kad's Words
caliph, sylvain, slither, rebbe, sverdrup, vapid, onus, atavistic, cathexis, acathexis, kludge, lithe and 97 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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Let's talk about sex
A collection of words about doing the nasty.
prurient, odalisque, soubrette, gravid, lochia, xenogamy, syngamy, zygote, pintle, hexaploid, seminal, hetaera and 232 more...
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Femmesque
Curious words having to do with women: positive or negative; feminine, observational, technical, weird, stupid, crass, etc. I loathe some of these words but I'm using this list as a catch-all... ev...
mittelschmerz, gynotikolobomasso..., ingenue, uxorious, hogminny, quim, suffragette, damsel, madame, parturient, testatrix, mediatrix and 188 more...
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Depraved and Insulting English
Vocabulary from Peter Novobatzky's and Ammon Shea's highly entertaining book of words I wish I could use in conversation.
ablutophobic, aboiement, abydocomist, acalculiac, achilous, acokoinonia, acrocephalic, acrotophiliac, acrotomophiliac, ameliotist, apotemnophiliac, monopediomaniac and 349 more...
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Obscure insults
dotard, nescient, goatsucker, scrofulous, faineant, pinguid, milquetoast, sleazo, varlet, jollux, rixatrix, sciolist and 46 more...
Tweets
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kad a female version of a cuckold. Sep 14, 2007
brtom ... their common cuckquean, a messenger from the secret morning.
Joyce, Ulysses, 1 Dec 28, 2006