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fishy queen

fishy queen noun: a drag queen who adopts a particularly feminine appearance.

Noun

fishy queen (plural fishy queens)

  1. (LGBTQ slang) A drag queen who adopts a particularly feminine appearance.
    • The drag world of course includes traditional queens with heavy lip lines and huge lashes, their makeup almost mask-like in its precision. But it also encompasses everything from "fishy" queens, whose gorgeous bodies and ultra-feminine images confuse the observer, to bearded ladies, who play with...2016, Magnus Hastings, “Introduction”, in Why Drag?, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN

Forms of fishy queen

pluralfishy queens

Origin of fishy queen

From fishy (“appearing very feminine and resembling a cisgender woman”).

Questions about fishy queen

What does fishy queen mean?
Fishy queen means a drag queen who adopts a particularly feminine appearance.
What part of speech is fishy queen?
Fishy queen is a noun.
What is the plural of fishy queen?
The plural of fishy queen is fishy queens.

Words near fishy queen in the dictionary

  1. fishwrap
  2. fishwrapper
  3. fishwrappers
  4. fishwraps
  5. fishy
  6. fishy queen
  7. fishy queens
  8. fishy wishies
  9. fishy wishy
  10. fishyback
  11. Fisichella

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