potato queen
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.04 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "During my "sticky rice" phase, I explored what it meant to be queer and Asian in contemporary America. We had terms for everyone: if you were rice (gay and Asian) and you liked white men, then you were a snow queen or a potato queen. White men who liked you were called rice queens. Every ethnicity had a term, usually related to food."
- "'He wasn't only an alternative,' Roimata said. 'Don was Maori, he had mana and, from what I've heard, he wasn't called Long Dong Silver for nothing. He was totally suitable but what did you do? You rejected him and became a — a potato queen.'"
- "They like you because you kneel hard, bend over quick and spread wide... They like you because you're a potato queen..."
- "“I lived in England for awhile, and I guess that’s where I became a potato queen,” Edward told me in his clipped yet rubbery Chinese/British hybrid accent. He was the first person to turn me on to the term potato queen. I knew about rice queens, but had no idea of this polar opposite—Asian guys who are into Caucasian guys."
- "At the beginning of “Lesson I,” the “Occupations” dramatization introduces us to the three protagonists who will accompany us on our Cantonese language excursions. The first is a bleached-blond young Asian man who announces in Cantonese, “I am a potato queen, which is someone who likes to do it with white men” (figure 4.2). The second, a dark-haired white French Canadian, states, “I am a rice queen, which is someone who likes to do it with Asian men” (figure 4.3). The third, another young Asian man, tells us, “I mostly do it with white guys, so that makes me a potato queen, but now I like Asians too, so maybe I’m sticky rice” (figure 4.4)."
- ""I get it now. You associate each race with its basic food group. Let me ask you this, you Rice Queen: did I ever devour your potato ass?" "No" "There you have it. I'm not strictly a Potato Queen.""
Etymology
From potato with the (somewhat derogatory) sense of (namely Irish) "Anglo-Saxon man," combined with queen to imply "homosexual attraction to...".
Usage
Inflected Forms
potato queens (plural)
potato-queen (alternative)