Meaning of cuckquean | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A woman who has an unfaithful husband.
2. A woman who is attracted to or aroused by the sexual infidelity of a partner.

Equivalents

Examples

“Ye make hir a cookqueane.”

“Yes, that's her name! His cuckquean she is; his wife she is not and never shall be!”

“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, […]”

“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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