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Queane vs Quean - What's the difference?

queane | quean |

As nouns the difference between queane and quean

is that queane is while quean is a woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute.

queane

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1504, author=Nicholas Udall, title=Roister Doister, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Downe with this litle queane , that hath at me such spite, Saue you from hir maister, it is a very sprite. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1566, author=William Adlington, title=The Golden Asse, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=You shall finde it no otherwise my sister, but that either this cursed queane hath invented a great lie, or else that she never saw the shape of her husband. }}

    quean

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete) * (l) (obsolete) * (l) (Scotland)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * cuckquean ----