dykon

British

/ ˈdaɪkɒn /

noun

slang a celebrity much admired by lesbians

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Etymology

Origin of dykon

C21: from _dyke + _icon

Example Sentences

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Fellow dykon, Melissa Etheridge puts herself on The L Word map by way of her marriage to actress Tammy Lynn Michaels, who, ironically, played the crazy ex to Moennig’s Shane.

From Slate

For the rest of his life he was Richard’s man, and though warned by the famous couplet that “Dykon his master” was bought and sold, “Jack of Norfolk” led the archer vanguard at Bosworth and died in the fight, from which his son the earl of Surrey was carried away a wounded prisoner.

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