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Argot (French, Spanish, Catalan for "slang is a language used by various groups, to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations. The term argot is also used to refer to the informal specialized vocabulary of study, hobby, job, sport, etc. Victor Hugo was one of the first to research argot extensively. He describes it in his novel, Les Miserables.

Sterling defines argot as "the deliberately hermetic language of a small knowledge clique... a super-specialized geek cult language that has no traction in the real world."

The earliest known recording of the term "argot" was in 1628, and the word probably derives from the name, les argotiers, given to a group of thieves at that time.

quail [slang]


quail noun
a girl under the legal age of consent US
1976
A shortened form of SAN QUENTIN QUAIL.
• — Radio Shack, CBer’s Handy
Atlas/Dictionary 1976

queef [slang]


queef noun
the passing of air from the vagina US, 2002
• [D]efending this limp-wristed yuppie
handjob of an album as if it were High
Art, and acting as if the blues were a
queef emitted from the loins of Camryn
Manheim – when she had a yeast
infection[.] — OC Weekly 25th October
2002

queen bee [slang]


queen bee noun
the manager of a homosexual brothel US,
1967
• Customers call the queen bee and
specify the male they want by physic
characteristics and the length of time
he is wanted. —Mark Holden, Sodom
1967 American Style 1967

queenie [slang]


queenie noun
a prostitute US, 1964
• Rest a us queenies from them eight
places up and down the street, we was
left high and dry, cause they wasn’t
gonna open them places up no more.
—Robert Gover, Here Goes Kitten 1964

queer [slang]


queer noun
a homosexual man or a lesbian US, 1914
Usually pejorative, but also a male homo-
sexual term of self-reference within the gay
underground and subculture.
• The homosexual, who was playing hard
to get, came to one masquerade party
dressed as Tinkerbelle, the good fairy.
He was what the other queers called a
screamer. —Phyllis and Eberhard
Kronhausen, Sex Histories of American
College Men 1960

queer [slang]


queer adjective
driven by deep and perverse sexual desires
US, 1967
• I say, You not queer, baby. You look
around you and you see, you not the
only one. —Sara Harris, The Lords of
Hell 1967

queer’s lunch box [slang]


queer’s lunch box noun
the male crotch US, 1964
• —Roger Blake, The American Dictionary
of Sexual Terms 1964

queue [slang]


queue noun
< put on a queue
(of a woman) to have sex with a line of
partners, one after the other AUSTRALIA,
1970
• [A] generous girl will “put on a queue”
behind the sand dunes for a seemingly
unlimited line-up of young men.
—Richard Neville, Play Power 1970