dykon

/ ˈdaɪkɒn /

noun

1. slang.
   a celebrity much admired by lesbians

Word History and Origins

Origin of dykon¹

C21: from dyke + icon

Example Sentences

And the amount of sapphic activity in the show was much appreciated by gays like myself, making Kohan a cultural icon among lesbians – or, to use the technical term, a “dykon”.

From The Guardian

“A dykon! Ooh, I like that, yeah. I’ll take that.”

From The Guardian

She still gets letters about it from women, even now, and it turned her into a dykon.

From The Guardian

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.

From Project Gutenberg