Prostitute vs Quean - What's the difference?
prostitute | quean |
A person who performs sexual activity for payment, especially a woman
A person who is perceived as engaging in sexual activity with many people.
A person who does, or offers to do, an activity for money, despite personal dislike or dishonour.
(usually reflexively) To perform sexual activity for money
To make another person, or organisation, prostitute themselves.
* Bible, Leviticus xix. 29
(derogatory) To use one's talents in return for money or fame
(figuratively) To exploit for base purposes; to whore.
A woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute.
*, III.2.1.ii:
*:Rahab, that harlot, began to be a professed quean at ten years of age […].
(Scotland) A young woman, a girl; a daughter.
*1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 30:
*:Forbye the two queans' there was the son, John Gordon, as coarse a devil as you'd meet, he'd already had two-three ' queans in trouble and him but barely eighteen years old.
As nouns the difference between prostitute and quean
is that prostitute is a person who performs sexual activity for payment, especially a woman while quean is a woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute.As a verb prostitute
is (usually reflexively) to perform sexual activity for money.prostitute
English
(wikipedia prostitute)Noun
(en noun)- I currently work as a prostitute in order to pay off my university debts .
Usage notes
* The noun is gender-neutral.Synonyms
* (person who performs sexual activity for payment) See also * (person perceived as engaging in sexual activity) See also , * (person who does an activity for money) sell outVerb
(prostitut)- Do not prostitute thy daughter.
- Yet again a commercial firm had prostituted a traditional song by setting an advertising jingle to its tune.