Meaning of queen it | Babel Free

Definitions

To behave like a queen; to be superior or conceited.

Examples

“This dream of mine— / Being now awake, I'll queen it no inch farther, / But milk my ewes, and weep.”

“But while she was with the Morels she queened it. She sat and let Annie or Paul wait on her as if they were her servants.”

“She had thought of herself living in a nice house in Hampstead or Chiswick, the beautiful mysterious Oriental princess who had married a commoner, who was not above preparing special dishes - exotic and spicy - for her guests, but who otherwise queened it over a household of stolid British servants.”

“Soon the ogress, fierce and bloodthirsty, she who for more than a hundred years had queened it in the depths, saw that a man - a queer being of the upperworld - had sunk to her realm.”

“Most of the fashionable notabilities were to be seen there, and as she had queened it over the stage, so with her formidable presence and resounding tones, she queened it over London society for a couple of decades.”

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