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English
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Etymology
From queer (“weird; odd”) + ken (“house”).
Noun
queer ken (plural queer kens)
- (dated, UK, thieves' cant and Polari) A prison.
2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian:Fact is, / she’ll end up in the charpering carsey / of Jennifer Justice. What is this / queer ken she’s in?
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:queer ken.
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References
- [Francis Grose] (1788) “Queer ken”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: S. Hooper, , →OCLC.
- John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1902) “queer ken”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. , volume V, Harrison and Sons] , →OCLC, page 345.
- Baker, Paul (2004) Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 49