noun. A gossip; a friend or an acquaintance.

noun. Any woman; specifically, a girl or young woman.

noun. A midwife.

noun. A witch.

noun. the relationship of a godmother to the other god-parents, and the legal parents, of a child.

noun. a female companion or intimate (of another woman)

noun. lass, the feminine equivalent of "fellow"

"“Did I know Kate Happer?” replied the widow; “as well as the beggar knows his dish — a canty quean was Kate, and a special cummer of my ain maybe twenty years syne.”"

co-mother  commother  gossip