单词 | tearoom queen |
释义 | > as lemmastearoom queen General use as a modifier (in sense 2); esp. designating a man who engages in or solicits sexual activity with other men in public toilets. Chiefly in tearoom queen. Cf. cottage n. Compounds 1d. ΚΠ 1941 G. Legman Lang. of Homosexuality in G. W. Henry Sex Variants II. App. vii. 1177 Tea-room queen., a homosexual who frequents toilet rooms to find persons amenable to his erotic..plans. 1970 L. Humphreys Tearoom Trade 8 Men who play the tearoom game must be able to know when someone is approaching. 1978 L. Kramer Faggots 94 I get sick of loitering at the loos. The smell is so rancid, Rolla. I am not a tea-room queen. 1994 P. Califia Public Sex i. 76 Like any other sexual minority, tearoom cruisers comprise a subculture with its own mores and codes of behavior. 2018 W. Ballard ‘Me’ Too in Japan 45 I have never been a tearoom queen, though I knew one once. < as lemmas |
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