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A term of 16 th century Scottish originfor a peasant housewife, later applied to: a) an emasculated male; b) a masculine or shrewish woman , especially one who dominates her husband . This term gave rise, in the 1830s, to cockquean , a male homosexual , one who acts the wife . See Also: cockquean