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queener

queener noun: one who queens (in various senses).

Noun (1)

queener (plural queeners)

  1. One who queens (in various senses).
    • Stop acting like some drama queen little girl who needs to grow up. Youre a grown--old man--and I dont care if you spend your life cavorting with ladygirls at your beachfront house. There are gay queener groups you can go hang at and peddle you and the popo's setup dope atat.2006 May 28, Jose, “if you dont have a answear then *&$#@ i came here for experienced ppl”, in alt.drugs.hard (Usenet)
    • Simply count up the moves the first queener will queen in, and then see how far the opponent's queening pawn will get in the same number of moves.2013, Andrew Soltis, The Wisest Things Ever Said About Chess, →ISBN

Noun (2)

queener (plural queeners)

  1. (in-compounds) A beehive having the specified number of queens.
    • Saturday night, after making two-queeners at our best outyard, a twister sneaked up on us; leveled some buildings, tore up signs and turned those doubles upside down and all over the yard.1950, American Bee Journal - Volume 90; Volume 3, page 250
    • Making nuc up top gives them some heat advantage PLUS allows you to run the unit as a two queener for a while and upon pulling the double screen or dividing board at start of aimed for flow the UPPER queen usually ends up being the only queen in time (mark her a different color so you can see as...1999 January 2, Gri...@my-dejanews.com, “Queen rearing resources”, in sci.agriculture.beekeeping (Usenet)
  2. (US, dated, slang, Stanford University) A student who takes an interest in courting women.
    • We must run and pick up things, such as music strewn around, pillows out of order, or books left out of their places; or in other words we must always keep the downstairs in order, after the others, for the queeners. Oh my, the queeners are the bane of our poor existence […]1914, Dragma To of Alpha Omicron Pi Fraternity, volume 10, page 19
    • In an effort to encourage a milk diet among these inveterate queeners, some kind spirit pastured a cow in the house one morning. As far as we are able to determine, the brothers did not take the hint. Neither did the cow.1928, The Stanford Quad, volume 35, page 437

Proper noun capitalized: Queener

Queener (plural Queeners)

  1. A surname.

Examples of queener in a sentence

  • In a more Sophisticated version, the first queener may force a queen trade into a Simple pawn ending.2015, Joel Benjamin, Liquidation on the Chess Board, →ISBN:
  • The social alienation between “rough-necks” and “queeners” ran deep.1986, Kevin Starr, Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915, page 334:

Forms of queener

Noun
pluralqueeners
Proper noun
pluralQueeners

Origin of queener

From queen (verb) + -er.

From queen (noun) + -er (measurement suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix).

Questions about queener

What does queener mean?
Queener means one who queens (in various senses).
How do you use queener in a sentence?
In a more Sophisticated version, the first queener may force a queen trade into a Simple pawn ending.
What part of speech is queener?
Queener can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of queener?
The plural of queener is queeners.

Words near queener in the dictionary

  1. queene
  2. queened
  3. queened it
  4. queened out
  5. queened up
  6. queener
  7. queeners
  8. queenes
  9. queenfish
  10. queenfishes
  11. Queenhill

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