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duchess
noun- a wife UK, 1895
An affectionate title, adopted from “the wife of a duke” (the highest hereditary rank of nobility), originally given to costermongers’ wives, perhaps in relation to the coster-royalty of Pearly Kings and Queens. May be a shortened form of DUCHESS OF FIFE, or extended from DUTCH (a spouse). - a girlfriend US
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Dictionary, p. 11, 1945
- a female member of a youth gang US
- — Kenn “Naz” Young, Naz’s Dictionary of Teen Slang, p. 35, 1993
- a comfortably-off or grandly well-appointed homosexual man UK
- — Paul Baker, Polari, p. 173, 2002
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