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queenie|ˈkwiːnɪ|
Also queeny.
[f. queen n. + -ie, -y6.]
1. a. An effeminate male, a homosexual; used esp. as a term of address. b. Comb., as queenie-fashion adv.
[c1736Pope Poems (1954) VI. 367 The Motley Race of Hervey queenies [var. reading Harvequini's] And Courtly Vices, Beastly Venyes. ]1933N. Ersine Underworld & Prison Slang 60 Queenie.., a homosexual man. 1936J. Curtis Gilt Kid viii. 79 ‘You're not a man. You're a pouf.’.. ‘I'll show you who's a pouf.’ ‘Call yourself a man do you this morning, Queenie? Well you wasn't one last night, see. You gets into bed and goes straight off to kip.’ 1948D. Ballantyne Cunninghams xx. 261 The dark, good-looking kid..who always had his shirt collar turned up queeny-fashion. 1966‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse II. 87 Queenie, an effeminate male. 1974R. Bly tr. Hamsun's Hunger i. 41, I felt a hand on my shoulder, and turned: ‘Queeny’ was saying good morning... The sight of this aimless, painted-up creature somehow enraged me.
2. (With capital initial.) An affectionate informal term for Queen Elizabeth II.
1976C. Storr Unnatural Fathers xiii. 131 ‘The Queen absolutely refuses.’.. ‘So Queenie's turned up trumps, has she? Good for her!’ 1979Time 13 Aug. 6/1 When Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Lusaka,..she was cheered by Zambians everywhere she went as ‘Queenie! Queenie!’. |