英语词汇queen dick的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Queen Dick; queer as Dick’s hatband. Oliver Cromwell’s son Richard (1626–1712), who ineffectually ruled England as Protector after his father, had such effeminate ways that he was widely called Queen Dick. Whether he was a homosexual isn’t known, but homosexuality certainly isn’t alluded to in the ex- pression as queer as Dick’s hatband. This means as strange as Dick’s crown, a crown on the head of such a weak, ineffectual person seeming incongruous or ridiculous to most of his sub- jects. Though several writers have associated “queer” with ho- mosexual in the phrase, the slang queer for homosexual isn’t re- corded until the 1920s. See tight as dick’s hatband.

词汇	queen dick
词源	Queen Dick; queer as Dick’s hatband. Oliver Cromwell’s son Richard (1626–1712), who ineffectually ruled England as Protector after his father, had such effeminate ways that he was widely called Queen Dick. Whether he was a homosexual isn’t known, but homosexuality certainly isn’t alluded to in the ex- pression as queer as Dick’s hatband. This means as strange as Dick’s crown, a crown on the head of such a weak, ineffectual person seeming incongruous or ridiculous to most of his sub- jects. Though several writers have associated “queer” with ho- mosexual in the phrase, the slang queer for homosexual isn’t re- corded until the 1920s. See tight as dick’s hatband.
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