See queer ken on Wiktionary
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{ "derived": [ { "english": "prison", "word": "queer-ken hall" } ], "etymology_text": "From queer (“weird; odd”) + ken (“house”).", "forms": [ { "form": "queer kens", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "queer ken (plural queer kens)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "British English", "English Thieves' Cant", "English countable nouns", "English dated terms", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Polari", "en:Prison" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian:", "text": "Fact is, / she’ll end up in the charpering carsey / of Jennifer Justice. What is this / queer ken she’s in?", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A prison." ], "links": [ [ "prison", "prison" ] ], "qualifier": "thieves' cant and Polari", "raw_glosses": [ "(dated, UK, thieves' cant and Polari) A prison." ], "tags": [ "UK", "dated" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "prison" }, { "word": "quier ken" }, { "word": "quire ken" }, { "word": "quyer ken" } ], "word": "queer ken" }
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