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cuckquean

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See also: cuck quean

English

WOTD – 5 May 2012
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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

Noun

cuckquean (plural cuckqueans)

  1. (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, 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, […]
      (Can we archive this URL?)
    • 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.
  2. (paraphilia) A woman who is attracted to or aroused by the sexual infidelity of a partner.

Translations

Verb

cuckquean (third-person singular simple present cuckqueans, present participle cuckqueaning, simple past and past participle cuckqueaned)

  1. (transitive) To make a woman into a cuckquean.

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