Definitions

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  • adjective Like a queen; regal.
  • adjective Like a drag queen.

Etymologies

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queen +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • I mean, nothing too big and drag queenish, of course.

    Earrings on Male Clergy PeaceBang 2006

  • I was being a bit drama queenish when I wrote that I don't know if I'll ever be able to trust anyone again.

    Cosmic Convergence vuboq 2006

  • I mean, nothing too big and drag queenish, of course.

    Archive 2006-08-13 PeaceBang 2006

  • She is, in fact, always passionate in one or other sense of that great and terrible and infinite [40] word, but never tragedy-queenish or vixenish.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

  • I like Adam, but I thought his Zeppelin was a little drag queenish.

    EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines 2009

  • I like Adam, but I thought his Zeppelin was a little drag queenish.

    EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines 2009

  • If Nazimova's personal life seems spun or at least exaggerated, it was all at the service of her queenish persona - something on prime display in Rambova's logic-defying art deco set designs.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • You'll thank me.), you may remember that Christopher Guest's sweet, gentle queenish character Corky St. Clair maintains a fiction throughout the film that he has a wife, although no one, including himself, ever sets eyes on her.

    Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 11: May the Dork Be With You 2009

  • On the reunion show of VH1’s Rock Of Love: Charm School Sharon Osbourne aimed a few of her weirdly drag-queenish barbs at Megan Hauserman – a girl who looks like the painful results of a genetic experiment involving Dolph Lundgren and a basketball factory – until Megan retorted by calling Sharon’s husband Ozzy Osbourne ‘braindead’.

    X Factor Betting Odds: Sharon Osbourne To Win? 2009

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