drag queen

See also: dragqueen and drag-queen

English

Alternative forms

• dragqueen

Noun

drag queen (plural drag queens)

1. (colloquial, LGBT) A person, usually male, who dresses up in women's clothing and makeup, typically in an exaggerated fashion and for public performance.
   • 1996, Robert Rodi, Drag Queen, Plume Books, →ISBN, page 51:

     "Guy's a drag queen, Mitch." "I know that." "Well, there you are. You can't trust him." Tweak. Tweak. Tweak. Mitchell sneered. It was his turn to shake his head. "Just because he dresses like a woman, I can't trust him" "It's not about dressing…

   Hypernym: transvestite

   Coordinate term: drag king

Related terms

• female impersonator

Translations

male who dresses up in women's clothing

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (Hong Kong) 拖拉女王 (tuōlā nǚwáng), 扮裝皇后 (zh), 扮装皇后 (zh) (bànzhuāng huánghòu), (mainland China; derogatory) 人妖 (zh) (rényāo)

• Dutch: dragqueen (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: reĝinjo (eo), dragreĝino
• Finnish: drag-kuningatar
• French: drag queen (fr) m or f
• Galician: travestí (gl)
• German: Dragqueen (de) f
• Hebrew: דראג קווין‎, מלכת דראג‎
• Hungarian: nőimitátor (hu) sg
• Icelandic: dragdrottning f, kjólasveinn m

• Irish: banríon draig f
• Japanese: ドラァグクイーン (dorāgu kuīn)
• Korean: 드래그 퀸 (deuraegeu kwin)
• Polish: drag queen (pl) f or m pers
• Portuguese: transformista m or f
• Russian: драг-кви́н (ru) m or f (drag-kvín), дрэг-кви́н (ru) m or f (drɛg-kvín), драг-короле́ва f (drag-koroléva), дрэг-короле́ва (ru) f (drɛg-koroléva)
• Spanish: drag queen, transformista (es) m or f
• Swedish: dragqueen (sv) c, druga (sv) c, dragdrottning (sv) c

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Polish

Etymology

From English drag queen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): //drak kwin//

Noun

drag queen f (indeclinable) or drag queen m pers (indeclinable)

1. (LGBT) drag queen

Further reading

• drag queen in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• drag queen in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Spanish

Noun

drag queen m or f (plural drag queens)

1. drag queen