queen

Meanings

Noun

Verb

  • To make a queen.
  • To act the part of a queen; to queen it.
  • To promote a pawn, usually to a queen.
  • To provide with a new queen.
  • To be the queen of a colony.
  • To sit on the face of (a partner) to receive oral sex.

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Origin

  • , Dutch kween ("woman past child-bearing age"), Swedish kvinna ("woman"), Danish kvinde ("woman"), Icelandic kvon ("wife"), Gothic 𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃 ("wife"), Norwegian dialectal kvån. Related to Old English cwene ("woman; female serf, quean"), see quean. Generally eclipsed non-native Middle English regina, borrowed from Latin rēgīna (see Modern English regina). gyne.

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