rice queen
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.38 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative spelling of rice queen.
Example Sentences
- "1984, Herbert Gold, Mister White Eyes: A Novel, Arbor House, →ISBN, page 204, 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)."
- "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, 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."
- "2005, Regie Cabico, "gameboy", in Emanuel Xavier (Ed.), Bullets & Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry, Suspect Thoughts Press, →ISBN, page 50, […] / i am not a teriyaki toy / / a rice queen's dream a bowl of soy sauce to dip yr meat in / […]"
- "Him: Are you new to the world of Rice Queens?"
- "Rice Queen - a non-Asian man, usually white, who likes Asian men exclusively."
- "This establishment is a haven for Asians and their admirers (known as ‘Rice Queens’)."
Etymology
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.
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Synonyms
Queen of Chinatown