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5-letter words (1 found)

QUEER,

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ERE,REE,RUE,URE,

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EE,ER,RE,UR,

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Definitions and meaning of queer

queer

English

Alternative forms

  • qwer (Bermuda)

Etymology

Attested since about 1510, at first in Scots. Usually taken to be from Middle Low German (Brunswick dialect) queer (“oblique, off-center”) or the related German quer (“diagonal”), from Old Saxon thwerh, from Proto-West Germanic *þwerh, from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn, twist, wind”); compare Latin torqueō, and see more at thwart. The OED argues against this due to the semantic differences and the date at which the word appears in Scots.

Began to be used to describe gay people in the late 1800s, see usage notes for more.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) enPR: kwîr, IPA(key): /kwɪɹ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kwîr, IPA(key): /kwɪə/
  • Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Adjective

queer (comparative queerer, superlative queerest)

  1. (dated outside UK, Ireland, Scotland) Weird, odd, or different; whimsical. [from 16th c.]
    • 1927, J. B. S. Haldane, “Possible Worlds” in Possible Worlds and Other Papers, London: Chatto & Windus,[8], [9]
      Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
  2. (British, informal, dated) Slightly unwell (mainly in "to feel queer"). [from 18th c.]
  3. (British, slang) Drunk.
  4. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Homosexual. [from 19th c.]
  5. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Non-heterosexual or non-cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
  6. (loosely) Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual or cisgender norms, assumptions etc. [from 20th c.]

Usage notes

  • Queer, in the sense of "gay" or "non-heterosexual", has gone in and out of use as a pejorative and as a self-identifier a number of times: it began to be used to describe gay people in the late 1800s (e.g. in an 1894 letter by John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry), and became more widespread in the US and became used as a self-identifier by American gay men by the 1910s, continuing into the 1950s, though by the 1940s younger ones considered it pejorative and preferred gay, which had been in use since the 1930s, and had come by the 1950s to encompass the whole LGBT community. Queer began to be reclaimed as a neutral or positive descriptor by the 1980s, at first most prominently by those who wanted to distinguish themselves from gay-identified people they felt had become too conservative and assimilationist. Some other people oppose the term as being still pejorative, or too radical, too informal, or too technical. The pejorative applied mainly to those assigned male at birth who were perceived as homosexual or effeminate; the reclaimed term is used by people of any sex or gender. Sometimes, the word refers only to nonheterosexual people and sexuality (and thus, speakers may contrast e.g. "queer trans women" with "straight trans women"), while at other times the word includes noncisgender people and is analogous to LGBT. (Compare genderqueer.)
    • See also Queer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • The word queer is still in regular, everyday use in Ireland, England and Scotland in its original meaning of "strange", "weird" or "bad". Elsewhere, however, this usage has almost completely disappeared and is now likely to be misunderstood by those unaware of it. If used in a modern setting, it may even be seen as callous to LGBTQIA+ people.

Synonyms

  • (weird, odd or different): See Thesaurus:strange
  • (unwell): See Thesaurus:diseased
  • (homosexual): See Thesaurus:homosexual
  • (outside traditional gender roles): genderfluid, non-binary, intergender
  • (unconventional sexual behavior):

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Azerbaijani: kuir
  • → Georgian: ქვიარი (kviari)
  • → German: queer, Queer
  • → Russian: квир (kvir)
  • → Swedish: queer
  • → Turkish: kuir

Translations

Noun

queer (plural queers)

  1. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.
  2. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.
  3. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person of any genderqueer identity.
  4. (definite, with "the", informal, archaic) Counterfeit money.
    Synonyms: funny money, snide

Usage notes

  • See the notes on the adjective (above) for more on the meaning of the term.
  • Regarding the use of the term as a noun, compare the usage notes about gay.

Synonyms

  • (homosexual person): See Thesaurus:homosexual person or Thesaurus:male homosexual

Hypernyms

  • LGBTQ, QUILTBAG

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

queer (third-person singular simple present queers, present participle queering, simple past and past participle queered)

  1. (transitive, dated) To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.
    • 1955, Rex Stout, "When a Man Murders...", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, →ISBN, page 78:
      I was a lot more apt to queer it than help it.
    Synonym: invalidate
  2. (UK, dialect, dated) To puzzle.
    • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud; A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter V, [13]:
      "Where do you come from?" Stanley queered.
  3. (slang, dated) To ridicule; to banter; to rally.
  4. (slang, dated) To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil.
  5. (social sciences) To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.
    Synonym: 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.

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

queer (not generally comparable, comparative more queer, superlative most queer)

  1. Queerly.
  2. (Ireland) Very, extremely.
    Synonyms: mighty, wicked

Derived terms

Translations

References

  • “queer”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • queer in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “queer”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English queer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkwiːɐ̯/

Adjective

queer (neuter queer, plural and definite singular attributive queer)

  1. queer (not conforming to conventional sexual or gender norms) [from 1994]

References

  • “queer” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English queer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kwiʁ/

Adjective

queer (invariable)

  1. queer (not conforming to traditional sexuality)

German

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English queer. Doublet of quer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kwiːɐ̯/

Adjective

queer (strong nominative masculine singular queerer, comparative queerer, superlative am queersten)

  1. (informal) queer (not conforming to heterosexual or cisgender norms)
Usage notes
  • Unlike with many other adjectives, queer is not typically nominalized in German when referring to people. The term Queer is used for this instead, borrowing the English nominalization.
Declension
Related terms
  • Queer

Etymology 2

Adjective

queer (strong nominative masculine singular queerer, not comparable)

  1. alternative form of quer
Declension

Adverb

queer

  1. alternative form of quer

Further reading

  • “queer” in Duden online
  • “queer” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Hungarian

Etymology

From Unadapted borrowing from English queer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkviːr]
  • Rhymes: -ír

Adjective

queer (not generally comparable, comparative queerbb, superlative legqueerbb)

  1. queer

Declension

Latvian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English queer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkviːrs/
  • Homophone: kvīrs

Adjective

queer (invariable)

  1. queer

Usage notes

This spelling is rare in Latvian and is usually adapted to "kvīrs", the nativised spelling of "queer". One of the few sources to use "queer" is the Seksuālā orientācija page on the Latvian Wikipedia.

Further reading

Seksuālā orientācija on the Latvian Wikipedia.Wikipedia lv

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English queer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkwir/
  • Rhymes: -ir
  • Syllabification: queer

Noun

queer n (indeclinable, related adjective queerowy)

  1. queerness (quality of being queer, in the sense of not conforming to sexual or gender norms)

Adjective

queer (not comparable, no derived adverb)

  1. (relational) queer (not heterosexual, or not cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.)
    Synonym: queerowy

Further reading

  • queer I in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • queer II in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • kvir

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English queer.

Adjective

queer (Cyrillic spelling квир)

  1. queer

Noun

queer m (Cyrillic spelling квир)

  1. queer (person)
  2. queer (a set of theoretical insights and socio-political principles about sexual orientation)

Declension

Adjective: indeclinable. Noun (person):

Noun (set of theoretical insights):

Usage notes

In Serbia, conserving original spellings of loanwords is considered nonstandard; standard spellings are kvir and квир.

Further reading

  • https://glosbe.com/sh/en/queer
  • Queer on the Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia.Wikipedia sh
  • Srpski rečnik novijih anglicizama

Slovene

Alternative forms

  • kvȋr

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English queer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʋíːr/
  • Rhymes: -íːr
  • Hyphenation: queer

Adjective

queer (indeclinable, not comparable)

  1. queer (relating to a person whose sexual orientation is not heterosexual or whose gender identity does not match the gender assigned at birth)
    Synonyms: kvȋrovski, queerovski

Noun

queer m animacy unspecified

  1. queer (a set of theoretical insights and socio-political principles about sexual orientation)

Declension


Further reading

  • “queer”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
  • “queer”, in Termania, Amebis
  • See also the general references

Spanish

Alternative forms

  • cuir

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English queer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkwiɾ/ [ˈkwiɾ]
  • Rhymes: -iɾ
  • Syllabification: queer

Adjective

queer (invariable)

  1. queer

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Turkish

Alternative forms

  • kuir

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English queer

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kuˈiɾ/, [kʰuˈiɾ̞̊]
  • Rhymes: -iɾ
  • Hyphenation: ku‧ir

Adjective

queer

  1. queer, of LGBT
    Synonyms: LGBTİ, kuir

Related terms

  • queerleştirme

Further reading

  • https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-turkish/queer
  • https://www.kaos-q.com/arsiv/queer-bir-girise-dogru-1/queer-teori-1 - Turkish source using the spelling "queer" instead of kuir.

Welsh

Alternative forms

  • cwiar

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English queer

Adjective

queer (feminine singular queer, plural queer, not comparable, not mutable)

  1. queer

Usage notes

  • As is the case for many words in Welsh, this word can be spelled as cwiar (assimilated spelling).
  • Like many other unnaturalised words recently derived from other languages, queer does not undergo initial mutation.

References

  • https://advice.southwales.ac.uk/cyngor/a2z/lgbt-support-and-information/glossary-gender-identitytrans-terms/
  • https://watch.eventive.org/irisprize2022/play/63247b1c8a242d0053c9f958
  • https://wici.porth.ac.uk/index.php/Theori_Cadi

Source: wiktionary.org