Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman whose husband is false to her: correlative to cuckold.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
woman who has anunfaithful husband. - verb transitive To make a woman into a cuckquean.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word cuckquean.
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.
Betrayed Robert K. Tanenbaum 2010
-
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.
Betrayed Robert K. Tanenbaum 2010
-
In a classic cuckquean fantasy, the wife would then jill off, right in front of her sexy tormenters, simultaneously humiliated and exhilarated.
Susie Bright: Tiger's Cuckold Fantasies -- What Do They Mean? 2009
-
A formidable woman of real power and prestige, she emerged from the Monica affair much more cuckold than cuckquean.
Archive 2007-09-01 Ann Althouse 2007
-
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.
Malice Robert K. Tanenbaum 2007
-
In his 1922 novel, Ulysses, James Joyce retrieved it from antiquity: “her gay betrayer, their common cuckquean.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
-
In his 1922 novel, Ulysses, James Joyce retrieved it from antiquity: “her gay betrayer, their common cuckquean.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
-
In his 1922 novel, Ulysses, James Joyce retrieved it from antiquity: “her gay betrayer, their common cuckquean.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
-
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 2003
-
In his 1922 novel, Ulysses, James Joyce retrieved it from antiquity: “her gay betrayer, their common cuckquean.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
brtom commented on the word cuckquean
... their common cuckquean, a messenger from the secret morning.
Joyce, Ulysses, 1
December 29, 2006
kad commented on the word cuckquean
a female version of a cuckold.
September 15, 2007