Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a donkey.

1823

‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc.

(US) a pregnancy.

1987		M.L. Lanning Only War We Had 47: She wrote that the doctor said that she had the ‘Egyptian flu’—she was going to ‘be a mummie’.
2003		‘Ramos’ ‘Hinge of Fate’ Ch. 1 on Northern Realms 🌐 The only flu you have, my dear, is the Egyptian flu, and in nine months you’re going to be a mummy. You are pregnant, my girl, make no mistake!

(gay) ‘a homosexual black man, particularly if he is stately and proud’ (Rodgers, Queens’ Vernacular, 1972).

1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular.
1986–7		Maledicta IX 54: Egyptian queen n [R, late 1960s in San Francisco] Homosexual black man, particularly if he is stately and proud.