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drag-queenese

drag-queenese noun: the jargon used by drag queens.

Noun

drag-queenese (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The jargon used by drag queens.
    • With quick shifts in and out of dialect, Rameau is able to speak French in an African-American accent, switch into East Village English, and then suddenly drawl some of the best drag-queenese heard this side of Union […]1994, Theater Week, volume 8, page 38
    • When such events befell him, Dooni would simply disappear for a few days, returning to tell his friends he had been “on location, filming a movie,” Los Angeles drag-queenese for doing jail time.2006, Joshua Gamson, The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco, New York, NY: Picador, →ISBN, page 31

Origin of drag-queenese

From drag queen + -ese.

Questions about drag-queenese

What does drag-queenese mean?
Drag-queenese means the jargon used by drag queens.
What part of speech is drag-queenese?
Drag-queenese is a noun.

Words near drag-queenese in the dictionary

  1. drag-net
  2. drag-nets
  3. drag-path
  4. drag-queen
  5. drag-queendom
  6. drag-queenese
  7. drag-queenish
  8. drag-queens
  9. drag-racing
  10. drag-racing boat
  11. drag-racing boats

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