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queen
English
Alternative forms
- queene, quene, queyne (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English quene, queen, cwen, from Old English cw?n (“queen”), from Proto-West Germanic *kw?ni, from Proto-Germanic *kw?niz (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?énh?s (“woman”). Cognate with Scots queen, wheen (“queen”), Old Saxon qu?n ("wife"; > Middle Low German quene (“elderly woman”)), Dutch kween (“woman past child-bearing age”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Danish kvinde (“woman”), Icelandic kvon (“wife”), Gothic ???????????????? (q?ns, “wife”), Norwegian dialectal kvån (“wife”). Related to Old English cwene (“woman; female serf, quean”), see quean. Generally eclipsed non-native Middle English regina (“queen”), borrowed from Latin r?g?na (“queen”) (see Modern English regina). Doublet of gyne.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kwi?n/, [k?w?i?n], enPR: kw?n
- Rhymes: -i?n
- Homophone: quean
Noun
queen (plural queens)
- A female monarch. Example: Queen Victoria.
- The wife or widow of a king.
- (chess) The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
- (card games) A playing card with the letter "Q" and the image of a queen on it, the twelfth card in a given suit.
- A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carom.
- A powerful or forceful female person.
- (LGBT, slang, often derogatory) An effeminate male homosexual. (See usage notes.)
- (Can we date this quote?), Bebe Scarpi, quoted in 2007, Stephan Cohen, The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York ?ISBN, page 196:
- Despite one's opinion of Sylvia I can attest to the purity of her intent and dedication, and, no one will dare deny she is one gutsy queen.
- (Can we date this quote?), Bebe Scarpi, quoted in 2007, Stephan Cohen, The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York ?ISBN, page 196:
- (LGBT, slang) Ellipsis of drag queen.
- A reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
- An adult female cat valued for breeding. See also tom.
- A queen olive.
- 1984, United States International Trade Commission, Bottled green olives from Spain (page A-24)
- Prices for the two main types of Spanish style green olives - manzanillas and queens - vary according to the size of the crop of each. In some years queens will be more expensive than manzanillas […]
- 1984, United States International Trade Commission, Bottled green olives from Spain (page A-24)
- A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., esp. Danaus gilippus).
Usage notes
- (LGBT): The term can be either derogatory or a self-identification. (Compare nigger.)
- (LGBT): Some of the people who were historically (in the late 1960s and 1970s) described as "queens" or "drag queens" or "street queens" are now sometimes considered transgender, especially when their gender identity is female or non-binary/genderqueer rather than male. Some people, like Sylvia Rivera, self-identified as both a "transgender person" and a "street queen". Drag queens, too, can have any gender identity.
Synonyms
- (female monarch): queen regnant, Regina (the reigning queen, formal)
- (wife of a king): queen consort, Regina (the reigning queen, formal)
- (LGBT): See Thesaurus:male homosexual
- (playing card): bitch, cowgirl, girl, lady, mop squeezer
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? American Sign Language: G@Shoulder-PalmDown G@Abdomen-PalmDown
- Sikaiana: kuini
Translations
See also
Verb
queen (third-person singular simple present queens, present participle queening, simple past and past participle queened)
- To make a queen.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To act the part of a queen; to queen it.
- (chess) To promote a pawn, usually to a queen.
- (beekeeping) To provide with a new queen.
- (beekeeping) To be the queen of a colony.
- (BDSM, slang, transitive, of a female) To sit on the face of (a partner) to receive oral sex.
- 2000, "Lorelei", The Mistress Manual: The Good Girl's Guide to Female Dominance
- Try Queening him. Have him lie on his back while you sit on his face (make sure he has an airway through either his mouth or his nose).
- 2000, "Lorelei", The Mistress Manual: The Good Girl's Guide to Female Dominance
Derived terms
- queen out
Translations
Anagrams
- quene
Middle English
Noun
queen
- Alternative form of quene (“queen”)
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queep
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -i?p
Etymology 1
Imitative.
Interjection
queep
- The sound a bird may make, similar to peep, chirp, cheep.
- 1918, Joseph Grinnell, Harold Child Bryant, Tracy Irwin Storer, The game birds of California
- In flight they often made a close flock calling, queep, queep, queep, queep, queep, . . .
- 1918, Joseph Grinnell, Harold Child Bryant, Tracy Irwin Storer, The game birds of California
- The sound a machine may make, similar to beep. See pocketa-queep.
Verb
queep (third-person singular simple present queeps, present participle queeping, simple past and past participle queeped)
- To emit a "queep" sound.
- She started to speak, but the peek queeped, and she studded it on.
- The computer queeped softly and then said, “Ship's systems ....”
- “This used to be where the contractors kept their heavy equipment,” Lester rumbled, aiming a car door remote at the door, which queeped and opened.
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
queep (uncountable)
- (military, slang, US) Non-flying duties, typically paperwork, that are undesirable to pilots.
- Why in the hell isn’t there someone else to do all this queep?!
- It isn't how well you fly, it's who you know and how well you perform your queep ground job.
- Still, the above is a true reflection of statistical promotion rates in the context of our current queep-biased system.
- What fighter pilots do is fly, and that they love, they have little love or tolerance for queep, a term for all paperwork and related jobs that keep a pilot out of the cockpit.
- Besides, if you're not flying, your whole world is going to consist of nothing but office queep.
- The stigma that surrounds a safety office and its staff is often that of naysayers or un-cool nerds. We’re the crushers of fun or sultans of queep in many squadrons, but there's no place for that kind of culture in the safety world.
Usage notes
Commonly used in the United States Air Force flying community.
Etymology 3
Short for "quad-sweep", a rowing boat/event.
Noun
queep (uncountable)
- A rowing event, with two scullers and two sweepers per shell.
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