queenly

形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Having the status, rank or qualities of a queen; regal.
    — So Maggie, glad of anything that would soothe her mother, and cheer their long day together, consented to the vain decoration, and showed a queenly head above her old frocks, steadily refusing, however, to look at herself in the glass.
  2. Resembling a queen (a typically feminine gay man); queenish.
    — The Pet Shop Boys are yet another synth-pop duo, albeit one that is not quite out of the closet. […] In past interviews, however, they [the Pet Shop Boys] have referred to their sound as "specifically gay disco," and their lyrics have that certain queenly something that lead singer Neil Tennant sings with an adorable sibilance.
副词 adv.
  1. In a queenly manner; regally.

词形变化

queenlier comparative queenliest superlative queenlier comparative queenliest superlative

词汇关系

近义词
queenlike reginal
衍生词
queenliness unqueenly

词源

词源 1
From Middle English queenly, quenly, from Old English cwēnlīċ, equivalent to queen + -ly.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English queen
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English queenly
From queen + -ly.
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