2019年11月28日 · According to Greens Dictionary of Slang the expression drama queen is a from gay slang and dates to the early nineties. (orig. gay) anyone considered to be making an excessive fuss or ‘making a mountain out of a molehill’; 1991 [US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 71: Joe was very intense, a real drama queen.

2020年11月2日 · The term can preceded by a specifier, e.g. a 'matzah queen' is a gay man who prefers Jewish partners, and an 'opera queen' is one who likes opera. A 'drama queen' was originally a gay man who made a big emotional fuss about trivial things, but the expression has, so to speak, come out of the closet and entered mainstream usage to mean a person ...

2012年6月13日 · You might try Munchausen, after the fictional (and fiction-creating) German Baron.Be careful, though; the word has been taken up by the medical profession to describe somebody who constantly fantasises or lives in a dream world, which is stronger than the original meaning, and probably stronger than you're looking for.

2013年9月13日 · A drama queen is a person who goes out of their way to cause trouble (drama) simply for the sake of creating a problem. It carries the connotation of someone who finds tranquility boring, and will agitate a situation purely for personal entertainment.

While the first thing that comes to mind is the two word phrase Drama Queen, I think melodramatic is the best single word. If they tend to overreact by worrying, neurotic is another option. Share

2013年1月24日 · I live in Los Angeles, but spend a good deal of time among the Russian expat community here - and I have noticed that Russians tend to find LA winters very cold; certainly colder than natives do.

2013年12月3日 · The word 'strever'(the equivalent of 'striver' in dutch) has a distinct negative connotation. It's a person who tries really hard in terms of having good grades as a compensation for lack of social skills.

2014年3月24日 · If an author writes, "The king died and then the queen died," there is no plot for a story. But by writing, "The king died and then the queen died of grief," the writer has provided a plot line for a story. A plot is a casual sequence of events, the "why" for the things that happen in …

2018年2月11日 · Elizabeth I was courted by the Duke of Anjou, a short man, who reminded the queen of a frog - so that is what she called him, her "frog". The song "A froggie did a courting go" derives from that courtship, so too, I suspect, does the origin of …

2014年9月6日 · There was a certain artistic quality to the precise movements of the bakers upstairs, the way they pushed slats of “doughs” into the ever-rotating carousel inside the ovens, and then flipped them, and then later removed them, but Rick assured me that Mr. H was the best, fastest, most dexterous baker at H&H and that he had once stayed up for twenty-four …