queer ken

== English == === Alternative forms === quier ken, quire ken, quyer ken === Etymology === From queer (“weird; odd”) + ken (“house”). === Noun === queer ken (plural queer kens) (dated, UK, thieves' cant and Polari) A prison. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:queer ken. ==== Synonyms ==== See Thesaurus:prison ==== Derived terms ==== queer-ken hall (“prison”) === References === [Francis Grose] (1788), “Queer ken”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC. John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1902), “queer ken”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume V, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 345. Baker, Paul (2004), Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 49