Queeradj

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  Of or relating to the culture surrounding queer people.

queeradj/kwɪə/

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  derogatoryHomosexual.

  • “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.
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  derogatoryNon-heterosexual or non-cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.

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  Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual or cisgender norms, assumptions etc.

  • 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?
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  datedStrange, odd, or different; whimsical.

  • 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.”
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  datedinformalSlightly unwell.

  • 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.
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  datedslangDrunk.

queernoun/kwɪə/

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  derogatoryA person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.

  • 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.
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  derogatoryA person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.

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  derogatoryA person of any genderqueer identity.

  • 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.
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  archaicinformalCounterfeit money.

  • You're shoving the queer.

queerverb/kwɪə/

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  datedTo render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.

  • I was a lot more apt to queer it than help it.
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  dateddialectalTo puzzle.

  • "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.
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  datedslangTo ridicule; to banter; to rally.

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  datedslangTo spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil.

  • "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.
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  human-sciencessciencessocial-scienceTo reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.

  • 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.
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  slangTo make a work more appealing or attractive to LGBT people, such as by not having strict genders for playable characters.

queeradv/kwɪə/

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  Queerly.

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  Very, extremely.

  • Twas a queer bachram in the pub that night!
  • Ah, but she was the queer old skeowsha anyhow, Anna Livia, trinkettoes!”