quean /kwiːn/ noun2 •(Scotland) A young woman, a girl; a daughter.Forbye the two queans there was the son, John Gordon, as coarse a devil as you’d meet, he’d already had two–three queans in trouble and him but barely eighteen years old. — 1932 •(no longer used) A woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute.Rahab, that harlot, began to be a professed quean at ten years of age […] — 1624 formsqueans