flaming queen
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.41 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A homosexual, and often cross-dressing, man acting in an ostentatious and flaunting manner akin to a diva.
Slang
Example Sentences
- "By his senior year, Gary was a "flaming queen," wearing full makeup and platform shoes."
- "No person could be masculine without becoming fully feminine, and no person could be feminine without also at the same time becoming fully masculine. In ethical-prescriptive terms, this would be interpreted as meaning that all femmes must become as butch as possible, and all butches must work their hardest to become flaming queens. Everyone must take the macho, made-up, cross-dressing basketball star or actor as the Christian role model—or the hyperfeminine drag queen fashion model, or the gentlemanly butch lesbian country singer."
- "Outside the cell, Jose carried himself like a true gentleman, yet behind his cell door with Candy, he'd frolicked about like a flaming queen; Jose traipsed around in homemade thongs, cropped T-shirts, cut-off shorts and shower slippers."