Dictionary: QUE – QUEEQ

• QUEACH
n. a dense growth of bushes; a thicket …c1450 obs. exc. Eng. dial.

• QUEACHY
adj. 1. forming a dense growth or thicket …1565 obs.
adj. 2. of ground: swampy, boggy …1593 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
adj. 3. feeble, sickly, weak, small …1859 Eng. dial.
n. wet, boggy land which requires draining …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• QUEAGLE
n. a seesaw, usually made by laying a plank across a fallen tree …1891 Eng. dial.
vb. to seesaw; to oscillate; to swing backwards and forwards, crouching down on the heels in a sitting posture …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• QUEAK
n. a gentle squeak; a weak, peeping cry, as of a young or small animal …1887 Sc.
vb. 1. to squeeze, to press down, to pinch, to hold tight …1876 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to make a weak, squeaking noise; to cheep; to cry, as the young of rats and mice …1887 Sc.

• QUEAL
vb. to faint away …1515 obs. exc. Eng. dial.

• QUEAN
n. 1. a woman; a female; from early Middle English a term of disparagement or abuse; hence, a bold, impudent, or ill-behaved woman; a jade, a hussy; a harlot, a strumpet, esp. in 16th-17th centuries …a1000
n. 2. a young woman, a girl, a lass, usually denoting one of a healthy and robust appearance …c1470 Sc.
n. 3. a term of endearment for a little girl …1703 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 4. a term of reproach for a shrewish or dirty woman …1740 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 5. a female sweetheart, a lass …1813 Sc.
n. 6. a maidservant …1818 Sc.
n. 7. an effeminate male homosexual …19C sl.
n. 8. a daughter …1916 Sc.
n. 9. a mistress, a paramour, a concubine …1931 Sc. obs.
n. 10. an ageing passive homosexual …1935 UK sl.
n. 11. a lesbian …c1970 homosexual sl.

• QUEAN-BAIRN
n. a female child …1868 Sc.

• QUEAN-CAT
n. a she-cat …1684 Eng. dial.

• QUEAN-CRAFT
n. female allurements …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• QUEANED UP adj
. carefully (not necessarily effeminately) dressed …c1920 Aust. sl.

• QUEAN-FOND
adj. of a man: love-stricken …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• QUEAN-HEFTED
adj. beset with women, in a lewd sense …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• QUEAN-HOUSE
n. a brothel …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• QUEANIE
adj. effeminate; soft …c1910 Aust. sl.
n. 1. a woman; a damsel; a term of endearment for a little girl …1703 Sc.
n. 2. a female child, a girl up to the end of her schooldays …1832 Sc.
n. 3 an effeminate man …c1910 Aust. sl.
n. 4 a very good-looking man or boy …E20 army sl.
n. 5. a homosexual …1930s Aust. sl.

• QUEANISH
adj. 1. of the nature of a harlot or strumpet …1596 obs.
adj. 2. effeminate …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• QUEAN-LASSIE
n. a young girl …1818 Sc.

• QUEAN-STRUCKEN
adj. of a man: love-stricken …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• QUEAN UP
vb. 1. to dress carefully, although not necessarily effeminately …1930s Aust. sl.
vb. 2. in male homosexual society: to adopt girlish mannerisms and affectations; to use cosmetics and to primp …1972 UK homosexual sl.

• QUEANY
adj. effeminate; soft …c1910 Aust. sl.

• QUEASE
vb. 1. to press, to squeeze …c1450 obs. rare
vb. 2. to wheeze …1887 Sc.

• QUEASED OUT
adj. nauseated; sick …1993 US sl.

• QUEASOM
vb. to choke, to stifle, to smother …1561 obs. exc. Eng. dial.

• QUEASY
adj. 1. of a matter: uncertain, hazardous …1589 obs.
adj. 2. dejected …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
adj. 3. indigestible, tough …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
adj. 4. short, brief …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• QUEAZEN
vb. to choke, to stifle, to smother …1561 obs. exc. Eng. dial.

• QUEBEC WRENCH
n. a beer bottle opener …2001 Can. sl.

• QUEBER
n. a social outcast …1987 US sl.

• QUECK
n. 1. ? a knock, a whack …1554 obs. rare
n. 2. a pebble, a stone …1923 Sc.
vb. to quack, as a duck …c1325 obs.

• QUED;  QUEDE
adj. 1. evil, wicked, bad, vile, base …c1205-25 obs. exc. Sc.
 adj. 2. hostile, inimical to …a1300 obs. rare
n. 1. a bad or wicked person …c1250 obs.
n. 2. the evil one; the Devil …c1250 obs.
n. 3. evil, mischief, harm …a1225 obs.

• QUEDFUL
adj. full of evil or wickedness …1340 obs.

• QUEDHEAD
n. evil, wickedness …1340 obs.

• QUEDLY
adv. wickedly …c1300 obs.

• QUEDNESS
n. evil, wickedness …c1300 obs.

• QUEDSHIP
n. evil, wickedness …c1205 obs.

• QUEE
n. prison …M18 US criminals’ sl.

• QUEEB
n. 1. any small problem, esp. mechanical …1960s US teen sl.
n. 2. a bisexual …1988 US sl.

• QUEE-BECK!
int. the cry of grouse, when startled …1901 Sc.

• QUEECH
n. a small plantation of trees or bushes; a spinney …1804 Eng. dial.

• QUEECHER
vb. to work in a lazy, unsatisfactory way …Bk1905 Sc.

• QUEECHY
adj. 1. ailing, sickly, queasy, feeble …1859 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. of land: wet, boggy, marshy …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• QUEED
n. a wooden chamber-pot …Bk1905 Sc.

• QUEEDLE
vb. to oscillate, to shake; to totter; to get about with difficulty …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• QUEEDLING
adj. tottering …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• QUEEDY
adj. brisk, sharp; shrewd …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• QUEEF
n. 1. a stratagem, a dodge, a trick; a conjuring trick, a piece of sleight of hand; cunning …1923 Sc.
n. 2. an engaging, roguish girl …1923 Sc.
n. 3. the passing of air from the vagina; a vaginal fart …1990s US sl.
vb. to expel air from the vagina, intentionally or not; to make a vaginal fart …1990s US sl.

• QUEEGY
adj. very small …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. something very small …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• QUEEK
n. a gentle squeak; a weak, peeping cry, as of a young or small animal …1887 Sc.
vb. 1. to squeeze, to press down, to pinch, to hold tight …1876 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to make a weak, squeaking noise; to cheep …1887 Sc.

• QUEEKLE
n. a gentle squeak; a weak, peeping cry, as of a young or small animal …1887 Sc.
vb. to make a weak, squeaking noise; to cheep …1887 Sc.

• QUEEL
n. a coldness, a cooling down, a chill …1922 Sc.
vb. 1. to coil, to curl up; to twist …1866 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to cool …1867 Sc.
vb. 3. to quench, to extinguish …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• QUEELIE
adj. cooling; soothing …1928 Sc.
n. coolness …1928 Sc.

• QUEELIN
vb. to go to bed …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• QUEEM
adj. 1. close-fitting, filled up to an even level; neat, fit …1820 Sc.
adj. 2. pleasant; calm; smooth …1824 Sc.
adj. 3. deep …1879 Sc.
adj. 4. prim, affectedly nice; over-fastidious …1924 Sc.
adv. 1. exactly, neatly, snugly …1710 Sc.
adv. 2. smoothly, pleasantly, without snags or hitches …1879 Sc.
vb. 1. to make something fit, to fall into place …1825 Sc.
vb. 2. to fit snugly, to fall into place, to coincide with …1880 Sc.
vb. 3. to smooth out …1935 Sc.

• QUEEM AS SILK
adv. smoothly, pleasantly …1900 Sc.

• QUEEMER
n. a toady, a sycophant, a fawning person …1880 Sc.

• QUEEMLY
adj. exactly adapted …1902 Sc.
adv. calmly, smoothly …1824 Sc.

• QUEEMNESS
n. an exact fit, perfect adaptation …1902 Sc.

• QUEEN
n. 1. a woman; a damsel; a term of endearment for a little girl …1703 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 2. a pretty young woman; a beauty …18C US sl.
n. 3. an immoral woman; a term of reproach for a shrewish or dirty woman …1740 Eng. dial.
n. 4. the boy or girl holding the second place in class at school …1867 Eng. dial.
n. 5. a small scallop …1890 Eng. dial.
n. 6. a female cat …1898
n. 7. an effeminate (older) homosexual male …L19 sl.
n. 8. a man’s wife; a companion; a sweetheart; a girlfriend; a lover …1900s sl. African-American sl.
n. 9. an effeminate male, not necessarily a homosexual male …E20 US sl.
n. 10. a fellator; a male who performs fellatio …E20 US sl.
n. 11. a passive or effeminate homosexual …1924 sl.
n. 12. a woman who runs an illicit township bar or shebeen …1940s S. Afr. sl.
n. 13. a popular girl …1959 US sl.
n. 14. a heterosexual …1960s homosexual sl.
n. 15. a beautiful lesbian …1960s African-American sl.
n. 16. a mistress, or prostitute …1968 US sl.
n. 17. an attractive, effeminate young prison homosexual, as such much sought after and fought over …1970s US prison sl.
n. 18. a transsexual …1980s Aust. prison sl.
n. 19. a mother, as the ruler of the house …2002 UK sl.
vb. to act in an effeminate manner; to pose ostentatiously …1970s sl.

• THE QUEEN
n. the UK’s national anthem …1952 UK sl.

• QUEEN ANNE
n. 1. an old-fashioned gun; a long barrel, big bore gun …1833 Sc.
n. 2. a coloured butterfly …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• QUEEN ANNE IS DEAD
phr. a retort on old news …1722

• QUEEN ANNE IS DEAD AND HER BOTTOM’S COLD
phr. a retort on old news …c1870

• QUEEN ANNER
n. an old-fashioned tale; a tale of former times …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• QUEEN ANNE’S FAN
n. a gesture of derision: the thumb on the nose-tip and the fingers spread fan-wise …E18 sl.

• QUEEN ANNE’S FLOWERS
n. the daffodil, Narcissus Pseudo-Narcissus …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• QUEEN BEE
n. 1. a person, usually a woman, in a position of authority or dominance; a domineering woman or wife …1930 Amer. dial.
n. 2. a man who likes to surround himself with young men, and who is  usually homosexual himself …1950s homosexual sl.
n. 3. a woman who likes to surround herself with young men, who may or may not be homosexual …1950s homosexual sl.
n. 4. a heterosexual woman who seeks out the company of homosexual men …1957 US sl.
n. 5. the alpha male in a group of homosexuals …1965 US sl.
n. 6. the woman with the largest breasts in a group …2000s African-American sl.

• QUEEN BESS
n. the queen of clubs …1791 Eng. dial.

• QUEEN-BIRD
n. a swan …1830

• QUEEN CHAIR
n. a method of carrying a person; a seat made by two persons crossing hands …Bk1905 Sc.

• QUEEN CHARLOTTE TUXEDO
n. a heavy grey Stanfield’s undershirt …1989 Can. sl.

• QUEEN CHRONICLE
n. the ladybird …1955 Sc.

• QUEEN ELIZABETH IS DEAD
phr. a retort on old news …18C

• QUEENIE
n. 1. an affectionate nickname used of a fat woman trying to walk young …L19 sl.
n. 2. a charming and attractive young woman …20C US sl.
n. 3. an effeminate male homosexual …1920s US sl., derogatory
n. 4. an effeminate male homosexual; often a term of address …1933 sl.
n. 5. a prostitute …1964 US sl.
n. 6. Queensland, Australia …1994 Aust. sl.

• QUEENING
n. courting women or girls; flirting …E20 US sl.

• QUEENLET
n. a petty queen …1833

• QUEEN MAMA
n. the very best of a person, place or thing …1990s US teen sl.

• QUEEN MARY
n. 1. a large tank truck …1954 US sl.
n. 2. a surfboard that is too big for the surfer using it …1964 US sl.
n. 3. an obese homosexual man …1980s US homosexual sl.

• QUEEN-MOTHER HERB
n. tobacco …1617 obs.

• QUEEN MUM
n. the buttocks …2000s rhyming sl. for ‘bum’

• QUEEN OF DE NILE
n. a woman who refuses to face reality; a self-deceiver …1990s African-American sl.

• QUEEN OF HOLES
n. the vagina …L17 sl.

• QUEEN OF MAY
n. the primrose …1787 Sc.

• QUEEN OF MEAN
n. Leona Helmsley (1920-2007), American hotelier and prototype of greed during the Reagan era …1997 US sl.

• QUEEN OF SCOTCH
n. an alcoholic homosexual man …1970s US homosexual sl.

• QUEEN OF SOUL
n. Aretha Franklin, rhythm-and-blues singer  African-American sl.

• QUEEN OF THE DRIPPING-PAN
n. a cook …1809

• QUEEN OF THE JUKEBOX
n. Dinah Washington (1924-1963), a briliant vocalist in the jazz, pop, and R&B genres …1975 US sl.

• QUEEN OF THE SOUTH
n. the mouth …1992 UK rhyming sl.

• QUEEN PIN
n. a woman who heads an institution or arranges an event, the chief woman in an organization or operation …1960s sl.

• QUEEN’S BAD BARGAIN
n. an unsatisfactory soldier …18C Eng. sl.

• QUEEN’S BUTTON
n. a buttercup …1896 Amer. dial.

• QUEEN’S CHAIR
n. a method of carrying a girl by seating her on the crossed and joined arms of two bearers …1923 Sc.

• QUEEN’S COWBOYS
n. the Royal Canadian Mounted Police …1989 Can. sl.

• QUEEN’S CUSHION
n. a seat (for a girl) made by the crossed hands of two persons; a seat made by two persons crossing hands; when a boy is so carried, the term is ‘King’s cushion’ …1808

• QUEEN’S GAFF
n. the anus …1992 UK sl.

• QUEEN’S GOLD MEDAL
n. a shilling (5p) …L19 sl.

• QUEEN’S HEAD
n. a postage stamp …1844

• QUEEN’S HERB
n. tobacco …1617 obs.

• QUEENSLANDER
n. a type of weatherboard house raised on stilts  …1994 Aust. sl.

• QUEEN’S MAN
n. a soldier …1900 Eng. dial.

• QUEEN’S PARK RANGER
n. a stranger; often in plural …1961 UK rhyming sl.

• QUEEN’S PICTURES
n. money …E18 sl.

• QUEEN’S PORTRAIT
n. money …E18 sl.

• QUEEN’S ROW
n. a section of the prison where homosexual inmates have their cells …1967 US prison sl.

• QUEEN’S SEAT
n. a method of carrying a girl by seating her on the crossed and joined arms of two bearers …1923 Sc.

• QUEEN’S STICK
n. a stately person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• QUEEN’S TEARS
n. alcohol, usually gin …1940s S. Afr. sl.

• QUEEN STREET BUSHIE
n. 1. a businessman who owns a farm as an investment …1950s NZ sl.
n. 2. in Queensland: a city person with pretenses to country living, such as dressing like a cowboy or driving a 4WD …2003 Aust. sl.

• QUEEN STREET COCKY
n. a businessman who owns a farm as an investment …1950s NZ sl.

• QUEEN STREET COWBOY
n. in Queensland: a city person with pretenses to country living, such as dressing like a cowboy or driving a 4WD …2003 Aust. sl.

• QUEEN STREET FARMER
n. a businessman who owns a farm as an investment …1950s NZ sl.

• QUEEN STREET RINGER
n. in Queensland: a city person with pretenses to country living, such as dressing like a cowboy or driving a 4WD …2003 Aust. sl.

• QUEEN STREET YANK
n. a New Zealander who apes American styles, etc. …1950s NZ sl.

• QUEEN’S WEATHER
n. fine weather …1899

• QUEEN’S WOMAN
n. a prostitute who received medical attention under the terms of the Contagious Diseases Acts of the 1860s …M19 sl.

• QUEEN TANK
n. a jail holding cell reserved for flamboyantly effeminate homosexual men …1988 US sl.

• QUEEN UP
vb. to dress carefully, although not necessarily effeminately …1930s Aust. sl.

• QUEEN WEEN
n. someone who backs out of a commitment …1990s US college sl.

• QUEENY
adj. 1. flamboyant and effeminate; blatantly homosexual …1936 homosexual sl.
adj. 2. showy, melodramatic, affected …1997 US sl.
n. an effeminate male homosexual; often a term of address …1933 sl.

• QUEEPLE
n. the peeping cry of young ducks …1866 Sc.
vb. to peep, to quack in a squeaking, high-pitched tone, as ducklings do …1880 Sc.

• QUEE-QUAW
n. a seesaw …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. to seesaw …Bk1905 Eng. dial.