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queen | gay |

As nouns the difference between queen and gay

is that queen is a female monarch. Example: Queen Victoriagay is a homosexual, especially a male homosexual; see also lesbian.

As verbs the difference between queen and gay

is that queen is to make a queen while gay is to make happy or cheerful.

As proper nouns the difference between queen and gay

is that queen is a title given to queens while Gay is {{surname|A=An|English|from=nicknames}}, originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person.

As an adjective gay is

happy, joyful, and lively.

queen

English

(wikipedia queen)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A female monarch. Example: (Queen Victoria)
  • The wife or widow of a king.
  • (chess) The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
  • (card games) A playing card with the picture of a queen on its face, the twelfth card in a given suit.
  • A powerful or forceful female person.
  • (derogatory, slang) An effeminate male homosexual. See drag queen.
  • A reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
  • An adult female cat valued for breeding. See also tom.

    • Synonyms

    * (female monarch) queen regnant * (wife of a king) queen consort

    Derived terms

    * drag queen * drama queen * ice queen * May Queen / queen of the May * prom queen * queencraft * queenhood * Queenie * queenlike * queenly * Queen of Sheba * Queen's English * queenship * requeen

    See also

    * *

    See also

    * czarina * duchess * emperor * empress * imperial * jack * king * kingdom * majesty * prince * princess * royal * royalty

    Verb

  • To make a queen.
  • (obsolete) To act the part of a queen; to queen it.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (chess) To promote a pawn, usually to a queen.
  • (BDSM, slang, transitive, of a female) To sit on the face of (a partner) to receive oral sex.
  • * 2000 , "Lorelei", The Mistress Manual: The Good Girl's Guide to Female Dominance
    • Try Queening him. Have him lie on his back while you sit on his face (make sure he has an airway through either his mouth or his nose).
  • * 2007 , Madelynne Ellis, Dark Designs
    • ...not Eloise, sat queening him. He couldn't wait to tip her velvet. He wanted to come, but not here, with these three. It was time to extract himself.
  • * 2012 , Yolanda Celbridge, The Castle of Maldona
    • She saw his pink tongue flickering on Clare's exposed nympha as she queened him, her love juices shining on his chin and throat

    See also

    * 1000 English basic words

    gay

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person.
  • from the word gay, "joyful"; rare today.
  • . Also a shortened form of Gabriel, Gaylord and similar names, or transferred from the surname.
  • * 1992 , Unto the Sons , Ballantine Books 1993, ISBN 0804110336, page 15
    • - - - my father's father, Gaetano Talese ( whose name I inherited after my birth in 1932, in the anglicized from of "Gay "), was an atypically fearless traveler,
  • * 2004 , Bad Dirt , Fourth Estate, ISBN 0007196911, page 32
    • "Mr Gay Brawls. What a name."
    "It didn't use to mean what it means now. Plenty were named Gay'. Even in Nevada. Was old ' Gay Pitch had a gas station in Winnemucca. Nobody thought nothin about it and he raised a railroad car of kids.- - -

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