Usually means: Disparaging term for an impudent woman.
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  1. quean: Merriam-Webster
  2. quean: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quean: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. quean: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Quean, quean: Wordnik
  6. quean: Wiktionary
  7. quean: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. quean: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Quean, quean: Dictionary.com
  10. quean: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Quean: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Quean: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. quean: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. quean: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  15. Quean: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. quean: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. quean: FreeDictionary.org
  18. quean: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. quean: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Quean: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quean: A Word A Day

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. quean: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Quean: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (quean)

noun:  (archaic) A woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute.
noun:  (Scotland) A young woman, a girl; a daughter.

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