maricón — meaning in English
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English meaning
- camp noun A place with tents, cabins, or temporary shelters where people stay, especially outdoors.
- fruit noun The seed-bearing part of a plant, often sweet and eaten as food, such as an apple or orange.
- 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.
Senses
maricón is used for these senses in English:
- camp (of a, man) Ostentatiously effeminate.
- fruit (dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual man; (derogatory, figurative) an effeminate man. [from 1900]
- girlyman (slang, derogatory) An effeminate man.
- queer (colloquial, sometimes, pejorative) Non-heterosexual or non-cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
camp — full definition
- noun A place with tents, cabins, or temporary shelters where people stay, especially outdoors.
- noun A group activity or programme, often for children, focused on a particular skill or theme.
- noun A deliberately exaggerated, theatrical, or self-mocking style, especially in fashion or performance.
- adjective Exaggerated, theatrical, or flamboyantly over-the-top, often knowingly so.
- verb To stay temporarily in a tent or outdoor shelter.
fruit — full definition
- noun The seed-bearing part of a plant, often sweet and eaten as food, such as an apple or orange.
- noun A good or bad result of effort or action.
- verb To produce fruit.