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cotquean
Definition
A term of 16 th century Scottish originfor a peasant housewife, later applied to: a) an emasculated male; b) a masculine or shrewish woman, especially one who dominates her husband. This term gave rise, in the 1830s, to cockquean , a male homosexual, one who acts the wife.
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