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marieta — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • family noun A group of people related by blood, marriage, or adoption, especially parents and their children.
  • fruit noun The seed-bearing part of a plant, often sweet and eaten as food, such as an apple or orange.
  • ladybird noun A small, round beetle, usually red or orange with black spots, that eats garden pests like aphids.
  • poof intj Used to represent a sudden small explosion or a magical vanishing.
  • queen noun A female monarch who rules a country, or the wife of a king.
  • queer adj Relating to a sexual orientation or gender identity that isn't exclusively heterosexual or cisgender; used both as a reclaimed identity term and, historically, as a slur.
  • sissy noun (informal, derogatory) A timid or cowardly person, especially a man or boy seen as insufficiently masculine.

Senses

marieta is used for these senses in English:

  • family (gay slang) Homosexual.
  • fruit (dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual man; (derogatory, figurative) an effeminate man. [from 1900]
  • ladybird Any of the Coccinellidae family of beetles, typically having a round shape and red or yellow spotted elytra.
  • poof (UK, Irish, Commonwealth, derogatory, colloquial) A gay man; especially one who is effeminate.
  • queen (LGBT slang, sometimes, derogatory) A homosexual man, especially one regarded as effeminate.
  • queer (colloquial, sometimes, pejorative) Non-heterosexual or non-cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
  • sissy (sometimes, derogatory, colloquial) An effeminate boy or man.

family — full definition

  1. noun A group of people related by blood, marriage, or adoption, especially parents and their children.
  2. noun A group of related things classified together, such as a category in biology or a set of related languages.
  3. adjective Suitable for both children and adults.

fruit — full definition

  1. noun The seed-bearing part of a plant, often sweet and eaten as food, such as an apple or orange.
  2. noun A good or bad result of effort or action.
  3. verb To produce fruit.

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