Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

curry queen

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.91 in modern English

Syllables: cur-ry queen
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A (usually white) man who is mostly attracted to South Asian or Indian men.

Derogatory; Slang

Example Sentences

"But in America, as I tentatively explored my gayness, I started meeting the real queens — drag queens, potato queens, rice queens, and salsa queens. What I needed to find, my friends assured me, was a bona fide curry queen."
"On analyzing the first dynamic, SALGA members agreed to exclude curry queens so that they could constitute a space in which they were subjects and not mere objects of an exoticizing white gaze."
"Gay argot has a number of terms for which there is no simple equivalent in the standard language. These include the terms bean queen (a male homosexual in the USA who likes partners from south of the border), chicken queen (likes young partners), curry queen (likes South Asian partners), and rice queen (likes East Asian partners)."

Etymology

From curry with the (somewhat derogatory) sense of (namely Indian) "South Asian," combined with queen to imply "homosexual attraction to...".

Usage

Inflected Forms

curry queens (plural) curry-queen (alternative)

Phrases

bean queen dinge queen potato queen rice queen salsa queen seafood queen snow queen sticky rice

Frequently Paired Words

bean queen dinge queen potato queen rice queen salsa queen seafood queen snow queen sticky rice

Questions

What does curry queen mean?: A (usually white) man who is mostly attracted to South Asian or Indian men.
Where does curry queen come from?: From curry with the (somewhat derogatory) sense of (namely Indian) "South Asian," combined with queen to imply "homosexual attraction to...".

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