Queen vs Keen - What's the difference?
queen | keen |
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.
To make a queen.
(obsolete) To act the part of a queen; to queen it.
(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
* 2007 , Madelynne Ellis, Dark Designs
* 2012 , Yolanda Celbridge, The Castle of Maldona
showing a quick and ardent willingness or responsiveness, enthusiastic, eager; interested, intense.
vehement; fierce; as, a keen appetite.
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* (rfdate), Shakespeare
sharp; having a fine edge or point.
* (rfdate) :
acute of mind; sharp; penetrating; having or expressing mental acuteness.
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bitter; piercing; acrimonious; cutting; stinging; severe; as, keen satire or sarcasm.
* (rfdate)
piercing; penetrating; cutting; sharp; -- applied to cold, wind, etc,; as, a keen wind; the cold is very keen.
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Enthusiastic
(US, informal, dated) Marvelous.
(UK) extremely low as to be competitive.
(obsolete) brave, courageous; bold, audacious.
(rare) To sharpen; to make cold.
* (rfdate), Thomson.
To utter a keen.
* (rfdate) Stuart Howard-Jones (1904-1974), Hibernia.'' Collected in ''The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, 1978.
To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.
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To mourn.
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As nouns the difference between queen and keen
is that queen is a female monarch. Example: Queen Victoriakeen is a prolonged wail for a deceased person.As verbs the difference between queen and keen
is that queen is to make a queen while keen is to sharpen; to make cold.As a proper noun Queen
is a title given to queens.As an adjective keen is
showing a quick and ardent willingness or responsiveness, enthusiastic, eager; interested, intense.queen
English
(wikipedia queen)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (female monarch) queen regnant * (wife of a king) queen consortDerived 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 * requeenSee also
* *See also
* czarina * duchess * emperor * empress * imperial * jack * king * kingdom * majesty * prince * princess * royal * royaltyVerb
- (Shakespeare)
- 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).
- ...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.
- 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 wordskeen
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Alternative forms
* keene, kene (archaic)Adjective
(er)- Of full keen will.
- So keen and greedy to confound a man.
- That my keen knife see not the wound it makes.
- To make our wits more keen .
- Before the keen inquiry of her thought.
- Good father cardinal, cry thou amen to my keen curses.
- Breasts the keen air, and carols as he goes.
- I'm keen to learn another language.
- I'm keen on learning another language.
- I'm keen on languages.
- I'm keen about learning languages.
- I'm keen for help.
- ''"Do you want to learn another language?" / "I'm keen ."
- I just got this peachy keen new dress.
- keen prices
Usage notes
* Keen is often used in the composition of words, most of which are of obvious signification; as, keen-edged, keen-eyed, keen-sighted, keen-witted, etc.Synonyms
* prompt; eager; ardent; sharp; acute; cutting; penetrating; biting; severe; sarcastic; satirical; piercing; shrewd. * See alsoDerived terms
* keen-witted * keen as mustard * keen on * keenly * keennessVerb
(en verb)- Cold winter keens the brightening flood.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Keen —meaning 'brisk'? Nay, here the Language warps:
'Tis singing bawdy Ballads to a Corpse.