English

Noun

cuckquean ‎(plural cuckqueans)

1. A woman who has an unfaithful husband.

   • 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 (Fiction), Repritnt edition, Echo Library, published 2009, ISBN 9781406853940, 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 New York Times, retrieved 2012-09-12:

     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, ...

   • 2010, Robert K. Tanenbaum, Betrayed, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 9781439149232, 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.

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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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See also

• cuckold
• wittol