cuckquean

[ kuhk-kween ]

noun

1. the wife of an unfaithful husband.

verb (used with object)

1. to make a cuckquean of (a woman).

Word History and Origins

Origin of cuckquean¹

First recorded in 1540–50; cuck(old) ( def ) + quean ( def )

Example Sentences

She’s happy to satirize the candidate, but she refuses to perform scripts that mock deadly conflicts, especially Benghazi, and she won’t present Clinton as a shrewish cuckquean.

From The New Yorker

Q: What does Carmela Soprano, materialistic cuckquean from The Sopranos have in common with Rory Gilmore, the precocious teenager in Gilmore Girls, and the core cast of Desperate Housewives?

From The Guardian

A wandering crone, lowly form of an immortal serving her conqueror and her gay betrayer, their common cuckquean, a messenger from the secret morning.

From Project Gutenberg

His cuckquean she is; his wife she is not and never shall be!—Thanks, a million golden thanks, La Corriveau, if you fulfil your prophecy!

From Project Gutenberg