Meanings
plural Viqueens
- humorousA female Viking.
I am a Viqueen bold / Far over the sea! / I let my standard fly / Boldly and free!
1852, Charles Hale, To-day: A Boston Literary Journal, volume 1, page 431 more example
Janice Liedl (see Further Reading) has documented balls organized by Lady Aberdeen (consort of the Governor General) in Ottawa (1896) and Montréal (1898), at which guests dressed as 'Vikings and Viqueens', so affirming, as Lady Aberdeen wrote in her diary, the 'Vikings first discovering Canada'
2021, Gordon Campbell, Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth, page 143 - derogatoryslangA member of the Minnesota Vikings, a professional American football team.
Origin
From queen, as though the second element of Viking were king.
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