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checca — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • fairy noun A small, magical being of human shape, often shown with wings in folklore and fiction.
  • milksop noun A piece of bread sopped in milk.
  • pansy noun A small cultivated garden flower with broad, often multicoloured petals.
  • 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.
  • twink noun (slang) A young, slim, attractive gay man, typically without much body hair.
  • weenie noun Someone weak and unimportant, a wimp.

Senses

checca is used for these senses in English:

  • fairy (Northern England, US, derogatory, colloquial) A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate.
  • milksop (by extension, pejorative) An easily frightened, ineffectual, or weak person.
  • namby-pamby One who is insipid, sentimental, or weak.
  • pansy (derogatory, colloquial) A timid, weak man or boy; a wuss.
  • 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.
  • twink (derogatory, slang) A weak or effeminate man, whether gay or not.

milksop — full definition

  1. noun A piece of bread sopped in milk.
  2. noun A dish consisting of bread pieces in a bowl, sprinkled with sugar and covered in hot milk.
  3. noun An easily frightened, ineffectual, or weak person.

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