queen
/kwiːn/ verb C2- To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.
- To promote a pawn to a queen.
- To be the queen bee of a colony.
- To provide with a new queen bee.
- To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head.
He/she/it queens · Past queened · Past participle queened · -ing form queening
Verb forms
- Base form
- queen
- He/she/it
- queens
- Past
- queened
- Past participle
- queened
- -ing form
- queening
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Permit me to introduce to you her Majesty, the Queen.”
Dorothy nodded gravely and the Queen made a curtsy, after which she became quite friendly with the little girl.
Then the Queen hurriedly gave her people the order to start, for she feared if the mice stayed among the poppies too long they also would fall asleep.
She’s sixteen and she’s studying for the entrance examination into Queen’s Academy at Charlottetown next year.
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