curious

1. (LGBTQ) Clipping of bi-curious.Examples: "It's not what I'm used to / Just wanna try you on / I'm curious for you / Caught my attention"abbreviationalt-ofclipping

2. (in combination) Interested in entering a romantic or sexual relationship with a specified group.Examples: "On the app I’d ultimately go with, I presented myself truthfully, as a Republican-curious woman tired of the Democrats’ hopelessness and constant pivoting during a highly charged election year."in-compounds

3. (obsolete) Careful, fastidious, particular; (specifically) demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.Examples: "Honourable even in the curiousest pointes of honour, whereout there can no disgrace nor disperagement come unto her."; "I am ſo fraught with curious buſineſſe, that / I leaue out ceremony."; "[We] never had better fires in England, then in the dry, ſmoaky houſes of Kecoughtan: but departing thence, when we found no houſes we were not curious in any weather to lye three or foure nights together vnder the trees by a fire, [...]"obsolete

4. (obsolete) Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.Examples: "To honour which a worlde of people reſorted unto the Lord de Bolognas caſtle; for the intertainment of whiche gueſtes, there neither wanted coſtly cheare, curious ſhewes, or pleaſaunt deviſes, that eyther money, friendſhip or cunning might compaſſe."; "His wonted ſleepe, vnder a freſh trees ſhade, / All which ſecure, and ſweetly he enjoyes, / Is farre beyond a Princes Delicates: / His Viands ſparkling in a Golden Cup, / His bodie couched in a curious bed, / When Care, Miſtrust, and Treaſon waits on him."; "And the curious girdle of the Ephod, which is upon it, ſhall bee of the ſame, according to the worke thereof; euen of gold, of blew, and purple, and ſcarlet, and fine twined linnen."obsolete