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queenie

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈkwiːni//

An effeminate man; a male homosexual (especially as a term of address).

noun

  1. 1

    An effeminate man; a male homosexual (especially as a term of address).

    He looks like Eddie Izzard gone too far and sounds a little like Rod Steiger's queenie turn in No Way to Treat a Lady.

  2. 2

    The queen scallop.

    There are no closed seasons for queenies or restrictions on fishing time or catches.

Etymology

From queen + -ie. Piecewise doublet of queanie.

Forms

plural
queenies
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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