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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Quean  \Quean\,  n.  [Originally,  a  woman,  AS  cwene;  akin  to  OS 
  quena,  OHG.  quena,  Icel.  kona,  Goth  qin?,  and  AS  cw['e]n, 
  also  to  Gr  ?  woman,  wife,  Skr.  gn[=a]  goddess.  Cf  {Queen}.] 
  1.  A  woman;  a  young  or  unmarried  woman;  a  girl.  [Obs.  or 
  Scot.]  --Chaucer. 
 
  2.  A  low  woman;  a  wench;  a  slut.  ``The  dread  of  every 
  scolding  quean.''  --Gay. 

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