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   Quean

   /kwēn/

   

   noun

   • 1. an impudent or ill-behaved girl or woman. archaic
   • ▪ a prostitute. archaic

   Word Origin Old Englishcwene ‘woman’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kween ‘barren cow’, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek gunē.

   Scrabble Points: 14

   • Q

     10

   • U

     1

   • E

     1

   • A

     1

   • N

     1

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