sb. Obs. Forms: 6 cook-, 6–7 cock-, cuc-, 7 cuck(e-; also 6 cut-, 7 quot-. [f. stem of cuck-old + QUEAN.] A female cuckold.
1562. J. Heywood, Prov. & Epigr. (1867), 62. Ye make hir a cookqueane.
1565. Golding, Ovid’s Met., VI. (1593), 146. Queene Progne was a cutqueane made by meanes of her.
1614. Sco. Venus (1876), 39. That hast made her a quot-queane shamefully.
1615. Heywood, Foure Prentises, Wks. 1874, II. 216. Hee’d make his wife a Cucke-queane.
a. 1652. Brome, City Wit, IV. i. To bee made Cuckqueane by such a Cockscombe.
Hence † Cuckquean v. trans., to make a cuckquean of.
1592. Warner, Alb. Eng., VIII. xli. (1612), 199. Came I from France … to be Cuckquean’d heere?
a. 1652. Brome, Mad Couple, III. i. You can doe him no wrong … to cuckold him, for assure your selfe hee cuckqueans you.
