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adj (English)
1. (dated) Strange, odd, or different; whimsical.Examples: "An old long-faced, long-bodied servant, gave a queer look"; "“I wish I hadn’t cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. “I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer to-day.”"; "One thing has struck me as a bit queer. During my two terms of office the whole Democratic press, and the morbidly honest and 'reformatory' portion of the Republican press, thought it horrible to keep U.S. troops stationed in the Southern States, and when they were called upon to protect the lives of negroes–as much citizens under the Constitution as if their skins were white–the country was scarcely large enough to hold the sound of indignation belched forth by them for some years. Now, however, there is no hesitation about exhausting the whole power of the government to suppress a strike on the slightest intimation that danger threatens."Synonyms: aberrant, abnormal, alien, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband, bizarre, curious, deviantdated
2. (British, informal, dated) Slightly unwell.Examples: "I felt queer after eating those shrimp."; "Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. … When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose."; ""Well, I'm—I'm jiggered," said Peter, and his voice also sounded queer."Synonyms: diseased, disease-ridden, infect, infected, morbid, morbific, morbose, unhealthyBritishdatedinformal
3. (British, slang, dated) Drunk.Britishdatedslang
4. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Homosexual.Examples: "“Such a Momma’s boy.” The old men had started up again—or perhaps they had never stopped. “No matter who he schtupped. Even Marilyn. I wouldn’t be surprised he was queer.” / “Strange, yes. Weird, yes. Queer, I don’t think.”"; "This is a one-shot thing we got goin’ on here. […] You know I ain’t queer."colloquialderogatorysometimes
5. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Non-heterosexual or non-cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.Synonyms: homophile, homosexual, like that, queer, similisexual, that waycolloquialderogatorysometimes
6. (loosely) Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual or cisgender norms, assumptions etc.Examples: "the queer community"; "If gender is no longer to be understood as consolidated through normative sexuality, then is there a crisis of gender that is specific to queer contexts?"; "Historically, this has meant that queer sexuality—defined here not literally or only as same-gender desire but as "the sex of others," meaning any sexuality outside the bounds of the reproductive, white, and genitally oriented—is often positioned against and even as toxic to "nature"."broadly
noun (English)
1. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.Examples: "Now that the first flush of this catastrophe and grief is passed, I write to tell you that it is a judgement on the whole lot of you. Montgomerys, The Snob Queers like [the Earl of] Rosebery & certainly Christian hypocrite [William Ewart] Gladstone [...]"; "[...] fourteen young men were invited [...] with the premise that they would have the opportunity of meeting some of the prominent 'queers,' [...] and the further attraction that some 'chickens' as the new recruits in the vice are called, would be available."; "It is the queers themselves whose answers to "What to do about it [homosexuality]" are most important. They, rather than the normals, cops, parents, or doctors are the persons most vitally concerned."colloquialderogatorysometimes
2. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.colloquialderogatorysometimes
3. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person of any genderqueer identity.Examples: "Gentrification often starts with the artists, revolutionaries, freaks, transfolks, and queers (what I would call my people) moving into poor neighborhoods inhabited by people of color."colloquialderogatorysometimes
4. (with definite article, informal, archaic) Counterfeit money.Examples: "You're shoving the queer."Synonyms: funny money, snidearchaicinformalwith-definite-article
verb (English)
1. (transitive, dated) To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.Examples: "I was a lot more apt to queer it than help it."Synonyms: invalidatedatedtransitive
2. (UK, dialect, dated) To puzzle.Examples: ""But lor-a-mussy, Jacob, how could a woman get away from here with all her boxes in the middle of the night?" "That's what queered me," and Spink slowly shook his head, "and queered a good many; for of course it got newsed about […]""; ""Where do you come from?" Stanley queered."UKdateddialectal
3. (slang, dated) To ridicule; to banter; to rally.datedslang
4. (slang, dated) To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil.Examples: ""Food is what queered the party. We ordered a big supper to be sent up to the room about two o'clock. Alec didn't give the waiter a tip, so I guess the little bastard snitched.""; "Well, then I got buried—shell dropped, and the dug-out caved in—and that queered me. They sent me home."; "You'll queer yourself on Broadway—you'll never get another job."datedslang
5. (social sciences) To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.Examples: "If I go, for instance, to the history of the church in Latin America, and decide to queer the history of the Jesuitic Missions, I may find that, in many ways, the missions were more sexual than Christian."; "Jonathan Goldberg further explores the implications of queering history in his essay in the same volume."; "We might say that there has been a ‘queering’ of urban studies insofar as the metropolitan lives, subcultures and social movements of gays and lesbians are now seen as valid objects of study."Synonyms: queerify
6. (slang, LGBTQ, neologism) To make a work more appealing or attractive to LGBT people, such as by not having strict genders for playable characters.neologismslang
adv (English)
1. (Ireland) Very, extremely.Examples: "Twas a queer bachram in the pub that night!"; "Ah, but she was the queer old skeowsha anyhow, Anna Livia, trinkettoes!”"; "Page 6: Tony: Yeah, he's a queer smily fecker, ain't he? Page 14: Tony: I'll tell yeh one thing Conway he's trainin' queer hard for it!"Synonyms: mighty#Adverb, wicked#AdverbIrelandnot-comparableusually
adj (English)
1. (chiefly US) Of or relating to the culture surrounding queer people.USnot-comparable
Definition source: Wiktionary