queener

See also: Queener

English

Etymology 1

From queen (verb) +‎ -er.

Noun

queener (plural queeners)

1. One who queens (in various senses).
   • 2006 May 28, Jose, “if you dont have a answear then *&$#@ i came here for experienced ppl”, in alt.drugs.hard (Usenet):

     Stop acting like some drama queen little girl who needs to grow up. Youre a grown--old man--and I dont care if you spend your life cavorting with ladygirls at your beachfront house. There are gay queener groups you can go hang at and peddle you and the popo's setup dope atat.

   • 2013, Andrew Soltis, The Wisest Things Ever Said About Chess, →ISBN:

     Simply count up the moves the first queener will queen in, and then see how far the opponent's queening pawn will get in the same number of moves.

   • 2015, Joel Benjamin, Liquidation on the Chess Board, →ISBN:

     In a more Sophisticated version, the first queener may force a queen trade into a Simple pawn ending.

Etymology 2

From queen (noun) +‎ -er (measurement suffix) or +‎ -er (occupational suffix).

Noun

queener (plural queeners)

1. (in combination) A beehive having the specified number of queens.
   • 1950, American Bee Journal - Volume 90; Volume 3, page 250:

     Saturday night, after making two-queeners at our best outyard, a twister sneaked up on us; leveled some buildings, tore up signs and turned those doubles upside down and all over the yard.

   • 1999 January 2, Gri...@my-dejanews.com, “Queen rearing resources”, in sci.agriculture.beekeeping (Usenet):

     Making nuc up top gives them some heat advantage PLUS allows you to run the unit as a two queener for a while and upon pulling the double screen or dividing board at start of of aimed for flow the UPPER queen usually ends up being the only queen in time (mark her a different color so you can see as this is being done for educational reasons).

2. (US, Stanford University, slang, dated) A student who takes an interest in courting women.
   • 1914, Dragma To of Alpha Omicron Pi Fraternity, volume 10, page 19:

     We must run and pick up things, such as music strewn around, pillows out of order, or books left out of their places; or in other words we must always keep the downstairs in order, after the others, for the queeners. Oh my, the queeners are the bane of our poor existence […]

   • 1928, The Stanford Quad, volume 35, page 437:

     In an effort to encourage a milk diet among these inveterate queeners, some kind spirit pastured a cow in the house one morning. As far as we are able to determine, the brothers did not take the hint. Neither did the cow.

   • 1986, Kevin Starr, Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915, page 334:

     The social alienation between “rough-necks” and “queeners” ran deep. In 1899 the San Francisco Chronicle blamed Stanford's string of football defeats upon the fact that queeners had taken over the student body.

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