Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Quean

Quean , noun

[Originally, a woman, Anglo-Saxon cwene; akin to Old Saxon quena, Old High German quena, Icelandic kona, Goth qin{not transcribed}, and Anglo-Saxon cwén, also to Greek {not transcribed} woman, wife, Sanskrit gnā goddess. Compare Queen.]

1.
A woman; a young or unmarried woman; a girl. [Obsolete or Scottish] — Chaucer
2.
A low woman; a wench; a slut.
The dread of every scolding quean. — Gay