10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COTQUEAN»
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The Works of Ben Jonson: With Notes Critical and ...
We tell thee, thou angerest us, cotquean ; 9 and we will thunder thee in pieces for
thy cotqueanity. Cris. Another good jest. Alb. O, my hammers and my Cyclops!
This boy fills not wine enough to make us kind enough to one another. • Tuc.
Ben Jonson, William Gifford,
1875
We tell thee, thou angerest us, cotquean ; 6 and we will thunder thee in pieces for
thy cotqueanity. Cris. Another good jest. Alb. O, my hammers and my Cyclops!
This boy fills not wine enough to make us kind enough to one another. Tuc.
Ben Jonson, William Gifford,
1875
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A glossary and etymological dictionary of obsolete and ...
Go, go you cotquean, go ; Get you to bed. Romeo and Juliet.. A stateswoman is
as ridiculous as a cotque an. Addison. Cotswold oames. In the time of James I.
Robert Dover, a public spirited attorney, procured leave to institute certain rural ...
Cotquean: a vulgar, scolding woman; the wife of a laborer; calling a man a
cotquean may be used as an insult. (See also People & Professions.) Coxcomb:
a fool. Depending upon whom the term is directed to, it can be a small or great
insult to ...
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A glossary and etymological dictionary: of obsolete and ...
Cotquean, a man who busies himself in such of the household affairs as are
appropriated to females. Dr. Johnson is clearly wrong in deducing the word from
the French coquin ; it is evidently and properly derived from the S.cot, a cottage,
and ...
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Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in ...
23). 24. The contemporary cant phrase “to play the cotquean” was used as a term
of disparagement for husbands who inappropriately busied themselves with their
wives' domestic duties. Like its suffix, “quean,” a “cotquean” referred to a “bold, ...
“The politician gave a speech thatnightwhich many insiders considered to be the
best of his career, in which he derided the press as 'nothing more than a bunch of
bloodsuckingcoprophiliacs.'” compare coprolagnia cotquean /KOT kween/ n A ...
Peter Novobatzky, Ammon Shea,
2014
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A Glossary and Etymological Dictionary of Obsolete and ...
COTQUEAN, a man who busies himselfin such of the, household affairs as are
appropriated to femalesDr. Johnson is clearly wrong in deducing the word from
the French coquin ,-- it is evidently and pro.perly derived from the S. cat, a cottage
, ...
9
Shakespeare's Non-Standard English: A Dictionary of his ...
(TC 5.1.4, Achilles to Thersites; Q has curre), OED Core sb1.1a, b; †correctioner '
officer in charge of whipping whores': you filthy famish'd Correctioner, (2H4 5.4.
20, Doll Tearsheet to Beadle); cotquean *'man who meddles with domestic ...
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The royal dictionary abridged in two parts: I. French and ...
Cotquean, S. (a Cot, or a Cottifli Man,) Un tâtepoule, un jocriffe, un homme qui fe
mile trop des affaires des femmes. Cottage, S. Cabane, chaumière. Cottager, S.
Celui ou celle qui demeure dans une cabane, t un manant. Cortón, S. Coton.