† cotqueann.

/ˈkɒtkwiːn/

Forms: Also 1500s cote-, cott-, 1500s–1700s cot-.

Etymology: < cot + quean n. ‘woman’, esp. as a depreciatory term. The first element is apparently cot n.¹, cote n.¹ in the sense ‘mean house, hut’: the original meaning being thus ‘housewife of a labourer's cot’. Thence the transition is easy on the one side to ‘one who has the manners of a labourer's wife, rude ill-mannered woman, vulgar beldam, scold’ (compare hussy n., < housewife), and on the other to a ‘man who acts the housewife’.

Obsolete.

1. (apparently) The housewife of a cot or labourer's hut. to play the cotquean: said of a man: see sense 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant by type of accommodation > [noun] > inhabitant of house > inhabitants of specific types of house

cottager1523

cotquean1547

coter1631

cottier1820

tenement householder1894

homecrofter1897

block dweller1902

soddy1958

society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [noun] > head of household > of a labourer's hut

cotquean1547

1547 W. Salesbury Dict. Eng. & Welshe Kotchwen, Cotequeane.

?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat sig. 5 The Vicar of little Down, in Norfolke..groaping his owne hennes, like a Cotquean.

1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον iv. 180 Aristotle holds it as inconvenient and uncomely for the wife to busie herselfe about any publike affaires, as for the man to play the cotqueane at home.

2. opprobriously. A woman to whom the manners of such a housewife are attributed; a coarse, vulgar, scolding woman, a low beldam.Cf. such expressions as ‘to scold like a market-woman’, ‘a fish-wife’, ‘a tinker's wife’, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > ill nature in woman or shrewishness > [noun] > shrew

scoldc1175

shrewc1386

viragoc1386

scolder1423

common scold1467

wild cat1570

vixen1575

callet1577

termagant1578

(Long) Meg of Westminster1589

butter whore1592

cotquean1593

scrattop1593

scoldsterc1600

butter-quean1613

Xantippea1616

fury1620

Tartar1669

fish-woman1698

cross-patch1699

Whitechapel fortune1734

brimstone1751

randy1762

fish-fag1786

rantipole1790

skellata1810

skimmington1813

targer1822

skellat-bell1827

catamaran1834

nagster1873

yenta1923

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [noun] > woman

cotquean1593

rouncival1596

city wire1616

rouncy1647

Gamp1846

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 146 Why, thou..Cotqueane and scrattop of scolds, wilt thou neuer leaue afflicting a dead carcasse.

1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iv. v. sig. H2^v [Jupiter to Juno] Wee are a King, Cotqueane..we will cudgell thee to death, if thou finde fault with vs.

1608 T. James Apol. Wickliffe 67 Railing and scolding more meretricum worse then Cot-queanes.

1633 J. Ford 'Tis Pitty shee's Whore i. sig. B2 ^v Scold like a Cot-queane (that's your Profession).

3. contemptuously. A man that acts the housewife, that busies himself unduly or meddles with matters belonging to the housewife's province. Cf. similar use of old wife, old woman, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > man > [noun] > man who does domestic or household work

wife-carl?1507

cotquean1597

cot1699

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. iv. 6 Cap. Looke to your bakt meates good Angelica. Nur: Goe get you to bed you cotqueane .

1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. F2^v I cannot abide these aperne husbands: such cotqueanes.

a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) II. 372 They fell upon him with opprobrious words, of Coward, Cotquene, Milksopp.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 482. ¶4 One [Husband] that is of the quite different Character, and who, in several Places of England, goes by the Name of a Cott-Quean.

1716 J. Addison Free-Holder No. 38 A States-woman is as ridiculous a Creature as a Cott Quean. Each of the Sexes should keep within its particular Bounds.

1772 Weekly Mag. 4 June 295/1 They brand a man with the name of a cot-quean.

1825 Hogg in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 17 113 If thou'rt a Cotquean by my soul, I'll split thy pruriginious nowl.

Derivatives

ˈcotqueaned adj. ? made a (male) cotquean.

ΚΠ

1704 T. D'Urfey Hell beyond Hell Tales 79 Like a cotquean'd fool, whose life Is bless'd, if he can please his wife.

cotˈqueanity n. character or quality of a (female) cotquean.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iv. v. sig. H3 We tell thee, thou angerst vs, Cotqueane; and we will thunder thee in peeces, for thy Cotqueanity .

cotquean-like adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > ill nature in woman or shrewishness > [adjective]

shrew1297

shrewda1387

scoldinga1533

shrewish?1566

cotquean-like1581

virago1598

vixena1660

termagant1668

vixenlya1677

calleting1691

rudas1802

termagantish1823

vixenish1828

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 258 b This unbrydeled and cottquenelike maner of scolding and lavishnes of toung.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 454 Cotqueanelyke rayling Rascallyke raging.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	cotquean
释义	† cotqueann. /ˈkɒtkwiːn/ Forms: Also 1500s cote-, cott-, 1500s–1700s cot-. Etymology: < cot + quean n. ‘woman’, esp. as a depreciatory term. The first element is apparently cot n.¹, cote n.¹ in the sense ‘mean house, hut’: the original meaning being thus ‘housewife of a labourer's cot’. Thence the transition is easy on the one side to ‘one who has the manners of a labourer's wife, rude ill-mannered woman, vulgar beldam, scold’ (compare hussy n., < housewife), and on the other to a ‘man who acts the housewife’. Obsolete. 1. (apparently) The housewife of a cot or labourer's hut. to play the cotquean: said of a man: see sense 3. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant by type of accommodation > [noun] > inhabitant of house > inhabitants of specific types of house cottager1523 cotquean1547 coter1631 cottier1820 tenement householder1894 homecrofter1897 block dweller1902 soddy1958 society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [noun] > head of household > of a labourer's hut cotquean1547 1547 W. Salesbury Dict. Eng. & Welshe Kotchwen, Cotequeane. ?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat sig. 5 The Vicar of little Down, in Norfolke..groaping his owne hennes, like a Cotquean. 1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον iv. 180 Aristotle holds it as inconvenient and uncomely for the wife to busie herselfe about any publike affaires, as for the man to play the cotqueane at home. 2. opprobriously. A woman to whom the manners of such a housewife are attributed; a coarse, vulgar, scolding woman, a low beldam.Cf. such expressions as ‘to scold like a market-woman’, ‘a fish-wife’, ‘a tinker's wife’, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > ill nature in woman or shrewishness > [noun] > shrew scoldc1175 shrewc1386 viragoc1386 scolder1423 common scold1467 wild cat1570 vixen1575 callet1577 termagant1578 (Long) Meg of Westminster1589 butter whore1592 cotquean1593 scrattop1593 scoldsterc1600 butter-quean1613 Xantippea1616 fury1620 Tartar1669 fish-woman1698 cross-patch1699 Whitechapel fortune1734 brimstone1751 randy1762 fish-fag1786 rantipole1790 skellata1810 skimmington1813 targer1822 skellat-bell1827 catamaran1834 nagster1873 yenta1923 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [noun] > woman cotquean1593 rouncival1596 city wire1616 rouncy1647 Gamp1846 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 146 Why, thou..Cotqueane and scrattop of scolds, wilt thou neuer leaue afflicting a dead carcasse. 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iv. v. sig. H2^v [Jupiter to Juno] Wee are a King, Cotqueane..we will cudgell thee to death, if thou finde fault with vs. View more context for this quotation 1608 T. James Apol. Wickliffe 67 Railing and scolding more meretricum worse then Cot-queanes. 1633 J. Ford 'Tis Pitty shee's Whore i. sig. B2 ^v Scold like a Cot-queane (that's your Profession). 3. contemptuously. A man that acts the housewife, that busies himself unduly or meddles with matters belonging to the housewife's province. Cf. similar use of old wife, old woman, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [noun] > man who does domestic or household work wife-carl?1507 cotquean1597 cot1699 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. iv. 6 Cap. Looke to your bakt meates good Angelica. Nur: Goe get you to bed you cotqueane . View more context for this quotation 1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. F2^v I cannot abide these aperne husbands: such cotqueanes. a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) II. 372 They fell upon him with opprobrious words, of Coward, Cotquene, Milksopp. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 482. ¶4 One [Husband] that is of the quite different Character, and who, in several Places of England, goes by the Name of a Cott-Quean. 1716 J. Addison Free-Holder No. 38 A States-woman is as ridiculous a Creature as a Cott Quean. Each of the Sexes should keep within its particular Bounds. 1772 Weekly Mag. 4 June 295/1 They brand a man with the name of a cot-quean. 1825 Hogg in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 17 113 If thou'rt a Cotquean by my soul, I'll split thy pruriginious nowl. Derivatives ˈcotqueaned adj. ? made a (male) cotquean. ΚΠ 1704 T. D'Urfey Hell beyond Hell Tales 79 Like a cotquean'd fool, whose life Is bless'd, if he can please his wife. cotˈqueanity n. character or quality of a (female) cotquean.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iv. v. sig. H3 We tell thee, thou angerst vs, Cotqueane; and we will thunder thee in peeces, for thy Cotqueanity . View more context for this quotation cotquean-like adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > ill nature in woman or shrewishness > [adjective] shrew1297 shrewda1387 scoldinga1533 shrewish?1566 cotquean-like1581 virago1598 vixena1660 termagant1668 vixenlya1677 calleting1691 rudas1802 termagantish1823 vixenish1828 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 258 b This unbrydeled and cottquenelike maner of scolding and lavishnes of toung. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 454 Cotqueanelyke rayling Rascallyke raging. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1547
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