queer
IPA: kwˈɪr
noun
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person of any genderqueer identity.
- (definite, with "the", informal, archaic) Counterfeit money.
verb
- (transitive, dated) To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.
- (UK, dialect, dated) To puzzle.
- (slang, dated) To ridicule; to banter; to rally.
- (slang, dated) To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil.
- (social sciences) To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.
- (slang, LGBT, neologism) To make a work more appealing or attractive to LGBT people, such as by not having strict genders for playable characters.
adjective
- (dated outside Ireland, Scotland and England) Weird, odd, or different; whimsical.
- (Britain, informal, dated) Slightly unwell (mainly in "to feel queer").
- (Britain, slang) Drunk.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Homosexual.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Non-heterosexual or non-cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
- (broadly) Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual or cisgender norms, assumptions etc.
adverb
- Queerly.
- (Ireland) Very, extremely.
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Examples of "queer" in Sentences
- There are some queer articles.
- He was previously a queer manager.
- He just noticed the queer phenomenon.
- He writes and performs the queer music.
- I have a queer feeling of the beatitude.
- She wore a queer dress for the halloween.
- He thought that she is a totally queer girl.
- This is the list of queer composers in the Wiki.
- Not all of the people in the queer cat are gay males.
- I candidly confess a queer, queer race, of novel fashion.
- How queer theory does so can be seen by looking at the term ˜queer™ itself.
- She feels the word queer implies that there is some discrepancy in her desires.
- "Well he _were_ a queer bear -- a _queer_ un -- th '_queerest_ I ever hear tell about.
- The term "queer" was once an epithet, before gays and lesbians deliberately repatriated it for themselves.
- Though one could manage that if it wasn't for her queer temper -- _queer_ indeed! queer's no word for it. "
- In 1997, the word queer and all its consistently vague connotations had yet to be introduced into my lexicon.
- With this in mind (in my opinion), legacy and new LGBT media should reflect in it's coverage that the term queer community isn't interchangeable with term LGBT community
- For example, queer theorists usually argue that one of the advantages of the term ˜queer™ is that it thereby includes transsexuals, sado-masochists, and other marginalized sexualities.
- I remember the first high school teacher who, without using the term queer theory, explained the idea that classic texts and films had subtexts that reflected non-normative experiences and that we could find something of our own experiences by looking a little closer.