-queen sfx
1. a combining form indicating a female enthusiast or a woman that is the best at something (cf. -king sfx).
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Maledicta III:2 236: It can be a title [...] and even used for women [...] and by the heterosexual public (‘I’m a tennis queen’). | |
| Sl. U. 155: She is a total fraternity queen. She spends all her times at fraternities. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Awaydays 45: I know them vaguely from Rupert’s, where they’ve got a bit of a rep as Nosh Queens. | |
| Powder 146: ‘I’m missing you . . .’ ‘Fuck that, slush queen!’. | |
| (con. 1973) Johnny Porno 211: Some cocaine addict porno-queen wannabe. | |
| Donnybrook [ebook] ‘Probably shacked up drunk with some trailer queen’. |
2. (orig. US gay) a combining form indicating a male homosexual enthusiast, but note cite 2009, where speaker is heterosexual.
 | effeminate male testifying in court q. in Sunshine & Rainbows (2001) 85: ‘I don’t know what a city queen is. I am surprised to hear that is the term that is applied to me about the town’ [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| et al. Gay Girl’s Guide 13: queen: [...] This popular and common word is found as a suffix (-Queen) in innumerable compounds, to denote a homosexual specializing in any activity. | |
| Gaedicker’s Sodom-on-the-Hudson 9: There is something of a rendezvous for the Wall Street queens in the Federal Hall Museum. | |
| Homosexuality & Citizenship in Florida 24: Glossary of Homosexual Terms [...] types of queens: 69 queen / Browing queen / Reaming queen/ Belly-wh queen / Hand queen / Golden shower queen. (All of the above are fairly well self-explanatoiry). | |
| Amer. Dict. Sexual Terms 17: big dick queen (Vulg Sl) A female, or a male homosexual, who desires sex relations only with men of extremely large penial proportions. | |
| Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 8: clothes queen (n.): The male homosexual who pays constant attention to his wardrobe. [Ibid.] 14: eyeball queen (n.): A homosexual who derives more pleasure just from looking than from anything else. [Ibid.] 20: green queen (n.): A homosexual who gets gratification from having sexual intercourse near the trees and bushes of parks. The dangerous aspect of this activity adds to his pleasure. [Ibid.] big dick queen 22: [Ibid.] 39: railroad queen (n., obs.): The homosexual who cruises the ‘jungles’ where tramps hang out or live. [Ibid.] 42: snowflake queen (n.): A male homosexual who likes to have semen from orgasm by masturbation sprinkled over him while lying down; it is not unusual to open the mouth to try to catch a few drops. | |
| Undergrowth of Lit. 40: ‘I’d never yet run into a real boot queen’. | |
| in Psychotic Reactions (1988) 35: However gratingly shrill their amphetamine-queen hysteria. | |
| ‘Homosexual Sl.’ in AS xlv 56: A man interested only in men with well-developed bodies is a body queen. | |
| Sherbert & Sodomy 150: ‘Actually, I’m a cuddle-queen myself,’ I announced [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Queens’ Vernacular 20: alley queen one who enjoys and seeks out sex in alleyways. [Ibid.] 25: auntie-queen young man who seeks the companionship of older men. [Ibid.] 35: levis queen homosexual with a jeans fetish. [Ibid.] 39: buy queen a homosexual man who has a desperate compulsion to buy furnishings for the home. [Ibid.] 48: [Ibid.] clothing queen (mid-late ‘60s) a gay clotheshorse. 52: coffin queen 1. one who finds the usual business of death [...] erotic. [Ibid.] 59: dalmation [sic] queen (fr dalmation dog = the mascot of the firehouse) any fireman. [Ibid.] dangle queen 1. gay exhibitionist. [Ibid.] 128: one who likes watching what he’s doing sexually in a mirror [...] mirror queen [Ibid.] 182: size queen [...] Syn: big dick queen [...] 183: bondage queen one receiving erotic/masochistic gratification through the practice of being tied up, humiliated and raped. | |
| Mother camp 27: There are no feminine counterparts of the male S-M queens, T-room queens, chicken queens, park queens, brownie queens, dinge queens, hormone queens, and so on. | |
| Maledicta III:2 236: It can be a title [...]. Queen can also be a suffix with or without derogatory overtones: leather queen, nostalgia queen, opera queen, hair queen. | |
| A-Team Storybook 34: Ann picked out the cocktail stick [...] and drove it deep into the crime queen’s chair. | |
| Men in Frocks 55: [of attendees at drag balls] The Ball Queens. Ah, yes they remember it well [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Queens 229: ‘Well, it’s a bit much to expect Philip to know your were being molested by a bondage-queen in a cess-pit in Earl’s Court’ [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Queens 78: ‘Anything’s better than this culture queen. Look at her! [...] thinking she’s the bee’s knees. Look all you like, Mary; it’s not for you!’ [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Almost One 68: Tommy was my first bleach-queen. His hair was like fibreglass but I sensed that it was just a superficial problem [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| OutRage Dec. 18/1: ‘You know what he called me? A dick queen’ [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Freezer Counter 69: ‘I am not an age queen! When I was twenty I had a passionate affair with a guy who was older than you are! [i.e. 52]’ [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Gay Sl. Dict. 🌐 auntie queen: young man or teenager who seeks the love and companionship of older men. . [Ibid.] belly-queen: [...] 2. gay male that is attracted to trim, lean stomachs, for sexual purposes. [Ibid.] Bog Queen: A gay man who frequents public toilets for sex. [Ibid.] Mitten Queen: A gay man who likes to masterbate [sic] others [Ibid.] Opera Queen: A devoted gay fan of the opera or divas [Ibid.] Potato Queen: (Asian) guys preferring white men [Ibid.] Size Queen: A gay man who is especially interested in partners with large penises. | |
| Sydney Star Obs. 4 June 47/3: [personal ad.] 23 yo..seeks honest & sincere guy with GSOH... No attitude queens pl [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Capital Q (Sydney) 23 July 26/3: [personal ad.] I’m not interested in [...] arrogant and pretentious café latte art queens either [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Guardian G2 12 Jan. 3: Dame Edna was a saucy, antipodean gossip queen. | |
| Another Country 113: [T]he stereotype of the upper-class ‘culture queen’ which in this story is represented, as stated earlier, by an exclusive clique of extremely sophisticated gay men, whose main interests are high culture and mercenary sex [Simes:DLSS]. | |
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | Gayle 80/1: locker room queen n. 1. gay man who joins a gym primarily to hang about in the change rooms and get thrills from seeing other, usually straight, men in the showers and sauna 2. gay man who hangs about gym locker rooms for the purpose of having sex. | |
| Boyfriend 143: ‘You know why my eyes sparkle? Because I’m an ammonia-queen, that is to say, toilets addict. I keep entering public loos with an expectant look in my eyes, hoping to find a new face and a new dick’ [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Hello Sailor 115: in the 1980s there was also a group of older gay seafarers who were known as container queens. Rather than bearing the expense of booking a hotel room, or taking a new partner back to their cabin on the ship, the container queens would simply pick up a local fellow and go with him to the containers on the quayside. | |
| Music I-LXXIV 81: I’m going to out myself here: I’m a timbre queen. That’s right, and an unreconstructed, shameless timbre queen, at that. I especially go for early keyboard instruments. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 65: Queen is often preceded by a noun or adjective that indicates a place of residence, character or preference. Indicative of this are terms like bog queen, bitchy queen, closet queen (one who hides his homosexuality), drama queen, kumara queen (a man who prefers sex with Maori men), potato queen (a man who prefers sex with European men), leather queen (one who gains sexual gratification from wearing leather), Auckland queen, size queen (a man who prefers partners with large penises). | |
| Fabulosa 297/2: sea queen 1. a gay sailor, particularly a steward or waiter in the Merchant Navy. 2. a gay man who seeks sex with sailors. |