kween
Meaning
- (feminine) barren hermaphrodite cow, mostly female with male traits; (by extension) any infertile hermaphrodite female animal held as livestock
- (dated,feminine) woman past child-bearing age; old woman, crone
Gender
♀️ Feminine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kʋeːn/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch quene (“wife, woman”), from Old Dutch kwena, from Proto-West Germanic *kwenā, from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (“woman”). Cognate with English quean, archaic German Queene (“heifer”).
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