queen it
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]queen it (third-person singular simple present queens it, present participle queening it, simple past and past participle queened it)
- To behave like a queen; to be superior or conceited.
- c. 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, act 4, scene 4:
- This dream of mine— / Being now awake, I'll queen it no inch farther, / But milk my ewes, and weep.
- 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
- 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.
- 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 467:
- 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.
- 1972, Gordon Mackenzie, Marylebone: Great City North of Oxford Street:
- 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.