Search for crossword answers and clues
Joe's wife in "Show Boat"
Answer for the clue "Joe's wife in "Show Boat" ", 7 letters:
queenie
Alternative clues for the word queenie
Word definitions for queenie in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Queenie (1952 – May 31, 2011) was a captive female Asian elephant . She was noted in the late 1950s and early 1960s for waterskiing for entertainment.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context colloquial English) An effeminate man; a male homosexual (especially as a term of address). (from 20th c.) 2 (context UK English) The queen scallop. (from 20th c.)
Usage examples of queenie.
During the postlude she would point out her choices to Queenie and Sister, and all three would hurry off to capture the men before anyone else got to them.
It was, however, maddeningly slow—made even slower by the sloshing heft of the Igloo cooler, which was filled with fresh Lake Jesup water especially for Queenie.
Inside the plastic container was precisely thirty gallons of Lake Jesup's purest, and in that agitated but freshly oxygenated water was the fish called Queenie, flaring her fins, jawing silent fulminations.