Cot"quean` (k?t"kw?n`), n. [Cot a cottage + quean.]

1.

A man who busies himself with affairs which properly belong to women.

Addison.

2.

A she-cuckold; a cucquean; a henhussy.

[Obs.]

What, shall a husband be afraid of his wife's face? We are a king, cotquean, and we will reign in our pleasures. B. Jonson.

 

© Webster 1913.