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rice queen

rice queen noun: a non-Asian man who is mostly attracted to East Asian men.

Noun (1)

rice queen (plural rice queens)

  1. (derogatory, slang) A non-Asian man who is mostly attracted to East Asian men.
    • These were nostalgic gray wolves in this place, or maybe they were the ones who spent the money and brought in the chickens. A rice queen with a Japanese boy (maybe Chinese).1984, Herbert Gold, Mister White Eyes: A Novel, Arbor House, →ISBN, page 204
    • If a man like myself in his 40s goes into a gay bar in Australia, no heads are going to turn. There are a few young Asian men and a lot of rice queens. In Thailand the position is reversed and the Caucasian man can choose.1995, unnamed interview subject, quoted in Laurence Wai-Teng Leong and Gerard Sullivan, Gays and Lesbians in Asia and the Pacific: Social and Human Services, Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 101
    Synonyms:
    Queen of Chinatown

Noun (2) capitalized: Rice Queen

Rice Queen (plural Rice Queens)

  1. (alternative, rare) Alternative spelling of rice queen.
    • Him: Are you new to the world of Rice Queens?2012 January 12, piefolk, Rice Queen
    • Rice Queen - a non-Asian man, usually white, who likes Asian men exclusively.2003 November, QuietMountain, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

Synonyms of rice queen

  • Queen of Chinatown

Forms of rice queen

pluralrice queens
alternative formrice-queen
alternative formRice Queen
pluralRice Queens

Origin of rice queen

From rice with the (somewhat derogatory) sense of "Asian man," combined with queen to imply "homosexual attraction to...". Compare bean queen for derivation; one was probably formed by analogy with the other.

Questions about rice queen

What does rice queen mean?
Rice queen means a non-Asian man who is mostly attracted to East Asian men.
What part of speech is rice queen?
Rice queen is a noun.
What is the plural of rice queen?
The plural of rice queen is rice queens.

Words near rice queen in the dictionary

  1. rice porridge
  2. rice pounder
  3. rice pounders
  4. rice pudding
  5. rice puddings
  6. rice queen
  7. rice queens
  8. rice rat
  9. rice rats
  10. rice rocket
  11. rice rockets

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rice queen (page history and authors); Rice Queen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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