queen
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: BDSM
agriculture
beekeeping
board-games
business
chess
games
lifestyle
sexuality
Etymology: From Middle English quene, queen, cwen, from Old English cwēn (“queen”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwāni, from Proto-Germanic *kwēniz (“wife, woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷénh₂s (“woman”).
Cognate with Scots queen, wheen (“queen”), Old Saxon quān ("wife"; > Middle Low German quene (“elderly woman”)), Dutch kween (“woman past child-bearing age”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk kvinne (“woman”), Danish kvinde (“woman”), Icelandic kvon (“wife”), Gothic 𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃 (qēns, “wife”), Norwegian dialectal kvån (“wife”). Related to and possibly merged with and/or absorbed some senses of English quean, from Middle English quene, from Old English cwene (“woman; female serf, quean”), see quean. Generally eclipsed non-native Middle English regina (“queen”), borrowed from Latin rēgīna (“queen”) (see Modern English Regina). Doublet of quean and gyne.
In reference to insects, by analogy with the obsolete term king, which it took over from starting in the 1600s, when they were discovered to be female.
Inflected forms:
form: queens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: queening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: queened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: queened
pos: verb
tags: past
form: queene
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: quene
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: queyne
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To act the part of a queen; to behave imperiously; to queen it.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
gloss: To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This dreame of mine / Being now awake, Ile Queene it no inch farther, / But milke my Ewes, and weepe.
gloss: To promote a pawn to a queen.
pos: verb
examples: Neither King will be able to stop the opponent's pawns from queening, when the game should be a draw. In such cases, which side queens first, or queens with check, can make a crucial difference. In this case, White promotes his pawn first and is able to put this advantage to good use.
gloss: To be the queen bee of a colony.
pos: verb
examples: They have all been queened by imported stock, or the best of home-bred mothers.
The nucleus should not be queened by a queen from any of the parent colonies.
gloss: To provide with a new queen bee.
pos: verb
examples: In queening his apiary, he aims to keep about half of the queens of the current season's rearing, and the other of the summer preceding.
If such a queen is immediately allowed to run through the entrance of a queenless colony, the queening is usually successful.
Once you have introduced the queen, the first three steps of the capture have been completed, namely: blocking the tree, providing an alternate home, and queening the colony.
Sealed cells with about to emerge queens are used for queening the divisions.
gloss: To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
usually
examples: The classic posture, in which you lie on your back while the male serves you, may make him feel arrogant and in charge. Try Queening him. Have him lie on his back while you sit on his face (make sure he has an airway through either his mouth or his nose).
She saw his pink tongue flickering on Clare's exposed nympha as she queened him, her love juices shining on his chin and throat[…]
Related words: queen out
facesitting
smothering
Derived words: queener
queening square
queening stool
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