See drag king on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "drag",
"3": "king",
"t1": "men's clothing worn by women"
},
"expansion": "drag (“men's clothing worn by women”) + king",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From drag (“men's clothing worn by women”) + king, by analogy with drag queen. First use appears c. 1954 in the newspaper National City News (California).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "drag kings",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "drag king (plural drag kings)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Esperanto translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Georgian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Crossdressing",
"orig": "en:Crossdressing",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Gender",
"orig": "en:Gender",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "LGBTQ",
"orig": "en:LGBTQ",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "People",
"orig": "en:People",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"coordinate_terms": [
{
"word": "drag queen"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1973, Abstracts in Anthropology, volume 4, Google Books",
"text": "Part of an ongoing ethnography of an imperial sovereign court I am undertaking, this chapter explores the world of the lesbian drag king and the gendered performance she undertakes in this realm."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A person, usually female, who dresses up in men's clothing, typically in an exaggerated fashion and for public performance."
],
"hypernyms": [
{
"word": "transvestite"
}
],
"id": "en-drag_king-en-noun-a84dl9J~",
"links": [
[
"LGBTQ",
"LGBTQ"
],
[
"female",
"female"
],
[
"dresses up",
"dress up"
],
[
"men",
"men"
],
[
"clothing",
"clothing"
],
[
"typically",
"typically"
],
[
"exaggerated",
"exaggerated"
],
[
"fashion",
"fashion"
],
[
"public",
"public"
],
[
"performance",
"performance"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial, LGBTQ) A person, usually female, who dresses up in men's clothing, typically in an exaggerated fashion and for public performance."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "female who dresses up in men's clothing",
"word": "dragreĝo"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "female who dresses up in men's clothing",
"word": "reĝiĉjo"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "female who dresses up in men's clothing",
"word": "drag king"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "drag-ḳingi",
"sense": "female who dresses up in men's clothing",
"word": "დრაგ-კინგი"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "female who dresses up in men's clothing",
"word": "férfiimitátor"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "female who dresses up in men's clothing",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "drag king"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "female who dresses up in men's clothing",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "drag king"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "drɛg-kíng",
"sense": "female who dresses up in men's clothing",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "дрэг-ки́нг"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"drag king"
]
}
],
"word": "drag king"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "en",
"3": "drag king"
},
"expansion": "Unadapted borrowing from English drag king",
"name": "ubor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Unadapted borrowing from English drag king.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m-pr,f",
"head": "drag king",
"indecl": "1"
},
"expansion": "drag king m pers or f (indeclinable)",
"name": "pl-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"drag"
],
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Polish entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "pl",
"name": "Crossdressing",
"orig": "pl:Crossdressing",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "pl",
"name": "Female people",
"orig": "pl:Female people",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "pl",
"name": "Gender",
"orig": "pl:Gender",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "pl",
"name": "Occupations",
"orig": "pl:Occupations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Coordinate term: drag queen"
}
],
"glosses": [
"drag king (person, usually female, who dresses up in men's clothing, typically in an exaggerated fashion and for public performance)"
],
"id": "en-drag_king-pl-noun-mb02mx7F",
"links": [
[
"drag king",
"drag king#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"animate",
"feminine",
"inanimate",
"indeclinable",
"masculine",
"person"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈdrak ˈkiŋk/"
}
],
"word": "drag king"
}
{
"coordinate_terms": [
{
"word": "drag queen"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "drag",
"3": "king",
"t1": "men's clothing worn by women"
},
"expansion": "drag (“men's clothing worn by women”) + king",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From drag (“men's clothing worn by women”) + king, by analogy with drag queen. First use appears c. 1954 in the newspaper National City News (California).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "drag kings",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "drag king (plural drag kings)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hypernyms": [
{
"word": "transvestite"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English colloquialisms",
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Esperanto translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Georgian translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"en:Crossdressing",
"en:Gender",
"en:LGBTQ",
"en:People"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1973, Abstracts in Anthropology, volume 4, Google Books",
"text": "Part of an ongoing ethnography of an imperial sovereign court I am undertaking, this chapter explores the world of the lesbian drag king and the gendered performance she undertakes in this realm."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A person, usually female, who dresses up in men's clothing, typically in an exaggerated fashion and for public performance."
],
"links": [
[
"LGBTQ",
"LGBTQ"
],
[
"female",
"female"
],
[
"dresses up",
"dress up"
],
[
"men",
"men"
],
[
"clothing",
"clothing"
],
[
"typically",
"typically"
],
[
"exaggerated",
"exaggerated"
],
[
"fashion",
"fashion"
],
[
"public",
"public"
],
[
"performance",
"performance"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial, LGBTQ) A person, usually female, who dresses up in men's clothing, typically in an exaggerated fashion and for public performance."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"wikipedia": [
"drag king"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "female who dresses up in men's clothing",
"word": "dragreĝo"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "female who dresses up in men's clothing",
"word": "reĝiĉjo"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "female who dresses up in men's clothing",
"word": "drag king"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "drag-ḳingi",
"sense": "female who dresses up in men's clothing",
"word": "დრაგ-კინგი"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "female who dresses up in men's clothing",
"word": "férfiimitátor"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "female who dresses up in men's clothing",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "drag king"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "female who dresses up in men's clothing",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "drag king"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "drɛg-kíng",
"sense": "female who dresses up in men's clothing",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "дрэг-ки́нг"
}
],
"word": "drag king"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "en",
"3": "drag king"
},
"expansion": "Unadapted borrowing from English drag king",
"name": "ubor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Unadapted borrowing from English drag king.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m-pr,f",
"head": "drag king",
"indecl": "1"
},
"expansion": "drag king m pers or f (indeclinable)",
"name": "pl-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"drag"
],
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Polish entries with incorrect language header",
"Polish feminine nouns",
"Polish indeclinable nouns",
"Polish lemmas",
"Polish masculine nouns",
"Polish multiword terms",
"Polish nouns",
"Polish nouns with multiple genders",
"Polish personal nouns",
"Polish terms borrowed from English",
"Polish terms derived from English",
"Polish terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Polish unadapted borrowings from English",
"pl:Crossdressing",
"pl:Female people",
"pl:Gender",
"pl:Occupations"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Coordinate term: drag queen"
}
],
"glosses": [
"drag king (person, usually female, who dresses up in men's clothing, typically in an exaggerated fashion and for public performance)"
],
"links": [
[
"drag king",
"drag king#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"animate",
"feminine",
"inanimate",
"indeclinable",
"masculine",
"person"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈdrak ˈkiŋk/"
}
],
"word": "drag king"
}
Download raw JSONL data for drag king meaning in All languages combined (4.6kB)
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: colloquial, LGBTQ",
"path": [
"drag king"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "drag king",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: colloquial, LGBTQ",
"path": [
"drag king"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "drag king",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-29 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (e937b02 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.