单词 | drag queen |
释义 | drag queenn. slang in early use (originally and chiefly among gay men). Originally: a male entertainer who performs dressed as a woman; a female impersonator. Now usually: a performer (most typically a man) who adopts a flamboyant, exaggerated, or parodic feminine persona, with glamorous or outrageous costumes and make-up.Also sometimes applied (outside the context of performance and entertainment) to a man who cross-dresses, or to a transgender woman, but these uses are now usually regarded as offensive. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [noun] > wearing clothes associated with opposite sex > person berdache1806 hijra1838 she-male1842 female impersonator1857 transvestite1911 Eonist1928 transvestist1928 transvestitist1930 drag queen1941 moffie1960 TV1960 shim1973 cross-dresser1976 tranny1979 1941 G. Legman in G. W. Henry Sex Variants II. App. vii. 1164 Drag-queen, a professional female impersonator; the term being transferentially used of a male homosexual who frequently..wears women's clothing…While many innate male homosexuals wear women's underwear..they are not for that reason called drag-queens. 1974 Daily Mail 14 June 22/1 Every pub drag queen dreams of..topping the bill at the Palladium in a dress. 1991 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 13 Mar. c13/1 ‘If you're black and male and gay, you have to be stronger than you can imagine.’ So advised the father of one of the Harlem drag queens who are the subjects of Jennie Livingston's ‘Paris is Burning’. 2000 Chicago Tribune (electronic ed.) 29 Nov. 7 Most [participants at the Faux Queen Pageant], like Slott, said female drag queens are able to turn unflattering stereotypes of women on their heads. 2019 @aimeewatson_ 2 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 15 July 2019) Finally started watching Ru Paul's Drag Race, crazy to think that most make up techniques now are taken from drag queens 💅. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019). < n.1941 |
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