Quin

//kwɪn// name, noun, slang

name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A quintuplet. informal
  2. 2
    A European scallop, Pecten opercularis, used as food.

    "Similarly the stocks of the free-living scallops and quins, which are caught by trawling, are threatened by over-fishing to supply the market for canned or frozen luxury sea-foods."

  3. 3
    one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A village in County Clare, Ireland, south-east of Ennis (Irish grid ref R 4174). countable, uncountable

Synonyms

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quintquintupletquintuplet

Example

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"Similarly the stocks of the free-living scallops and quins, which are caught by trawling, are threatened by over-fishing to supply the market for canned or frozen luxury sea-foods."

Etymology

* Irish: variant of Quinn, from Irish Ó Coinn (“descendant of Chief”). * English (of Norman origin): nickname from Old French quin (“monkey”). * French: from a short form of Jaquin, pet form of Jacques, from Latin Iācōbus (English Jacob).

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