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See also: Queenie
English
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[edit]queenie (plural queenies)
- (colloquial) An effeminate man; a male homosexual (especially as a term of address). [from 20th c.]
- 2001 June 1, Rod Mackie, The Guardian:
- 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.
- (UK) The queen scallop. [from 20th c.]
- 2015, Elizabeth Gosling, Marine Bivalve Molluscs, page 296:
- There are no closed seasons for queenies or restrictions on fishing time or catches.
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