drag queen

See also: dragqueen, Dragqueen, and drag-queen

English

A drag queen at the Cologne pride parade

Alternative forms

• dragqueen

Etymology

From drag (“women's clothing worn by men”) +‎ queen.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Northern California):

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Noun

drag queen (plural drag queens)

1. (LGBTQ, originally slang) A person, usually male, who dresses up in women’s clothing and makeup, typically in an exaggerated fashion and for public performance.

   Synonyms: female impersonator, (dated) street queen

   Hypernyms: transvestite; see also Thesaurus:transvestite

   Hyponyms: butch queen, fishy queen

   Coordinate term: drag king

   • 1996, Robert Rodi, Drag Queen‎^[1], New York: Dutton, →ISBN, retrieved 5 February 2022, page 37:

     Donald was donning a brand new pair of pantyhose. He hadn’t shaved in a while, and he could feel his stubble snag on the nylon. It’s not pretty when a drag queen gets careless, he thought, but it was too late to do anything about it tonight.

Coordinate terms

• drag king

Derived terms

• drag-queendom
• drag queenery
• drag-queenese
• drag-queenish
• drag queenism

Descendants

• → Russian: дрэг-кви́н (drɛg-kvín)

Translations

male who dresses up in women's clothing

• Arabic: مُمَثِّلُ بِلِبَاسٍ اِمْرَأَةٍ m (mumaṯṯilu bilibāsin imraʔatin), دْرَاج كْوِين m or f (drāg kwīn), دْرَاق كْوِين m or f (drāg kwīn)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (Hong Kong) 拖拉女王 (tuōlā nǚwáng), 扮裝皇后 (zh) (bànzhuāng huánghòu), (mainland China; derogatory) 人妖 (zh) (rényāo)

• Cornish: arlodhes kadys f
• Dutch: dragqueen (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: reĝinjo (eo), dragreĝino
• Finnish: drag-kuningatar, drag queen (fi)
• French: drag queen (fr) m or f, travelo (fr)
• Galician: travestí (gl)
• Georgian: დრაგ-კუინი (drag-ḳuini)
• German: Dragqueen (de) f
• Hebrew: דראג קווין, מלכת דראג
• Hungarian: nőimitátor (hu)
• Icelandic: dragdrottning f, kjólasveinn m
• Irish: banríon draig f
• Japanese: ドラァグクイーン (dorāgu kuīn)
• Korean: 드래그 퀸 (deuraegeu kwin)
• Polish: drag queen (pl) f or m
• Portuguese: drag queen (pt), transformista (pt) m or f
• Russian: дрэг-кви́н (ru) m or f (drɛg-kvín), дрэг-короле́ва (ru) f (drɛg-koroléva)
• Spanish: drag queen, transformista (es) m or f
• Swedish: dragqueen (sv) c, druga (sv) c, dragdrottning (sv) c
• Ukrainian: дреґ-кві́н m or f (dreg-kvín), дреґ-короле́ва f (dreg-koroléva)

See also

• bio queen, faux queen
• queen up
• squirrel friend

Polish

drag queen

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English drag queen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdrak ˈkwin/

• Audio:

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• Syllabification: drag queen

Noun

drag queen f or m pers (indeclinable)

1. drag queen (person, usually male, who dresses up in women's clothing and makeup, typically in an exaggerated fashion and for public performance)

   Coordinate term: drag king

Further reading

• drag queen in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• drag

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English drag queen.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdɾɛ.ɡi ˈkuj̃/ [ˈdɾɛ.ɡi ˈkuɪ̯̃]

• Hyphenation: drag queen

Noun

drag queen f or (uncommon/derogatory) m (plural drag queens)

1. (LGBTQ) drag queen

Coordinate terms

• drag king

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English drag queen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdɾaɡ ˈkwin/ [ˌd̪ɾaɣ̞ ˈkwĩn]
• Syllabification: drag que‧en

Noun

drag queen m or f by sense (plural drag queens)

1. drag queen