quean
英 [kwi?n]
美[kwen]
- n. 妓女；輕佻女人
中文詞源
quean 輕佻的女人
來自quean 的拼寫異體，詞義產生分化。
英文詞源
- quean
- quean: see gynaecology
- quean (n.)
- "young, robust woman," Old English cwene "woman," also "female serf, hussy, prostitute" (as in portcwene "public woman"), from Proto-Germanic *kwenon (cognates: Old Saxon quan, Old High German quena, Old Norse kona, Gothic qino "wife, woman"); see queen. Popular 16c.-17c. in sense "hussy." Sense of "effeminate homosexual" is recorded from 1935, especially in Australian slang.