Quaxxine or Quaxine or Quaxxxine (quack + vaccine)
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic led to vaccines. Some people who distrusted the vaccines called them "quaxine" or "quaxxine" or "quaxxxine" (quack + vaccine).…
Quaxxxine or Quaxine or Quaxxine (quack + vaccine)
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic led to vaccines. Some people who distrusted the vaccines called them "quaxine" or "quaxxine" or "quaxxxine" (quack + vaccine).…
Queaster (quarantine + Easter)
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic resulted in quarantines, and this occurred on the Easter 2020 religious holiday on April 12, 2020. "Queaster" (quarantine + Easter) is a portmanteau…
Queen (Drag Queen)
Harlem's female impersonators were called "queens" in the 1930s. "In New York" with Paul Harrison was syndicated in many newspapers. Harrison's column describing…
Queen Anne (cocktail)
Entry in progress -- B.P. 21 May 1893, Cleveland (OH) Plain Dealer, pg. 17, col. 2:THE MANHATTAN.The Greatest of American Democratic Clubs.The Manhattan club at Fifth avenue and Thirty-fourth…
Queen of Avenues (Fifth Avenue)
Manhattan's Fifth Avenue has been called the "Queen of Avenues." The term "queen of avenues" (lower case) was cited in print in 1949. Jack McCarthy, a broadcaster of the…
Queen of Soul Food (Sylvia’s)
Sylvia's restaurant at 328 Lenox Avenue (127th Street) has become a Harlem institution. It was started in 1962 by Sylvia Woods (1926-2012). Sylvia's has used the trademarked slogan…
Queens (cocktail)
The "Manhattan" cocktail has existed since at least the 1880s, but for many years it was noted that the borough of Wueens did not have a cocktail of its own. A "Queen's…
Queens Topographical Poem
A Queens topographical poem -- written in 1926 by Ellis Parker Butler -- attempted to easily explain the new street numbering. 3 December 1926, New York Times, pg. 8:VERSE AFFORDS MEANSTO GET ABOUT…
Queenser (inhabitant of Queens)
People from the borough of Queens usually refer to themselves as from their particular neighborhood, such as Forest Hills, Kew Gardens or Flushing. "Queenser" has been cited in print very…
Queensite (inhabitant of Queens)
People from the borough of Queens usually refer to themselves as from their particular neighborhood, such as Forest Hills, Kew Gardens or Flushing. "Queensite" has been cited in print…
Quesadiarrhea (quesadilla + diarrhea; “case of diarrhea”)
Quesadiarrhea (quesadilla + diarrhea; "case of diarrhea") is not a food served at Taco Bell restaurants, but there are jokes. "Better than a quesadiarrhea" was posted on Twitter…
Quesarito (quesadilla + burrito)
A "quesarito" (quesadilla + burrito) is a cheese quesadilla wrap with burrito fillings. Taco Bell had filed for a trademark for "quesarito" in 1986, but the trademark protection…
Quiche (Quiche Lorraine)
"Quiche" is probably related to the German word "kuchen," or cake. A quiche is made of eggs and milk or cream, baked in a pastry crust. A Quiche Lorraine (named from the…
Quick Lunch; Beef and—, Sinkers
"Quick lunch" was a term popular in the late 1800s. Was the "quick lunch counter" invented by Patrick Dolan, at 3 Park Row? A Souvenir of New York's Liquor InterestsNew…
Quisqueya Heights (Washington Heights)
Washington Heights (in upper Manhattan) has so many residents from the Dominican Republic that it is often called "Quisqueya Heights." "Quisqueya" is an informal nickname of the…
Quooklyn (Queens + Brooklyn)
Ligaya Mishan wrote in the New York (NY) Times on June 12, 2014: "You are 10 stops out of Manhattan on the L line, in the borderland where Bushwick, Brooklyn, blurs into Ridgewood, Queens.…
Raaaaacism or Raaaaacist (“There are five A’s in ‘raaaaacism’”)
"Racism!" and "Racist! are politically charged terms, often used after other factual arguments fail. The political right has often charged that the political left uses the "race…
Rabbi Hole (rabbi + rabbit hole)
"Rabbi hole" (rabbi + rabbit hole) is a term that went viral after secret tunnels were discovered at the World Headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, a synagogue located at 770…
Rabbit Town (Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village)
The first building of Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village residential complex opened in 1947. The buildings became so attractive to new families that the development was nicknamed…