cuckquean

plural cuckqueans · alternative cuck quean · alternative cucquean · alternative cuckqueen · alternative cuck queen

1. lifestyleA woman who has an unfaithful partner; (now often specifically), a woman aroused by the sexual infidelity of her partner.

   Ye make hir a cookqueane.

   1562, John Heywood, The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A.D. 1562), reprint edition, Spenser Society, published 1867, page 62

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   His cuckquean she is; his wife she is not and never shall be!

   1897, William Kirby, “Weird Sisters”, in The Golden Dog, reprint edition (fiction), Echo Library, published 2009, →ISBN, page 289

   A wandering crone, lowly form of an immortal serving her conqueror and her gay betrayer, their common cuckquean, a messenger from the secret morning.

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 14

   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[…]

   2007 September 13, Judith Warner, “Horned and Scorned”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, retrieved 12 Sep 2012

   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.

   2010, Robert K. Tanenbaum, Betrayed, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 4

   Synonyms: cot-quean, cot-quean, cucquean

present singular third person cuckqueans · participle present cuckqueaning · participle past cuckqueaned · past cuckqueaned · alternative cuck quean · alternative cucquean · alternative cuckqueen · alternative cuck queen

1. transitiveTo make a woman into a cuckquean.