1.〈英〉(未婚)妇女;少女
2.厚脸女人,轻佻妇女(尤指妓女)
1.an offensive term that deliberately insults a woman's morality
1.Nurse Go, you cot-quean, go, get you to bed; Faith, you'll be sick to-morrow for this night's watching.
奶妈走开,找你被窝里的女人去,去,上床睡去吧!说真的,这里守了一夜,你明天会生病的。
2.The other quean seemed to just hang around with the commoners for years until people started using it as a word for a prostitute.
相比之下,另一个单词quean似乎在很多年里都混迹于普通大众,直至人们开始用它来称呼妓女。
3.So that's why most people don't recognize the word quean anymore.
这就是为什么现在的大多数人都不知道单词quean了。