queer

Plural: queers

Noun

• offensive term for an openly homosexual man
• A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.
• A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.
• A person of any genderqueer identity.
• Counterfeit money.

Verb

Verb Forms: queered, queering, queers

• To spoil or ruin; to put out of order.
• hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
• put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
• To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.
• To puzzle.
• To ridicule; to banter; to rally.
• To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil.
• To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.
• To make a work more appealing or attractive to LGBT people, such as by not having strict genders for playable characters.

Adjective Satellite

• beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
  • "something definitely queer about this town"
• homosexual or arousing homosexual desires

Adj

• Strange, odd, or different; whimsical.
• Slightly unwell.
• Drunk.
• Homosexual.
• Non-heterosexual or non-cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
• Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual or cisgender norms, assumptions etc.

Adv

• Queerly.
• Very, extremely.

Adjective

• Deviating from the usual or expected; strange or unconventional.

Examples

• feel queer
• He tried to QUEER her chances of a bingo by blocking the last open bonus square.
• It was a QUEER turn of events when both players drew all vowels.
• the queer community
• Twas a queer bachram in the pub that night!

Synonyms

baffle, bilk, cross, curious, endanger, expose, fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, foil, frustrate, funny, gay, homophile, nance, odd, pansy, peculiar, peril, poof, poove, pouf, queen, rum, rummy, scotch, scupper, singular, spoil, thwart, aberrant, abnormal, alien, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband, bizarre, deviant, different, differing, discrepant, disease-ridden, diseased, dissimilar, diverse, eerie, eldritch, errant, exceptional, extraordinary, fey, forby, freak, freakish, freaky, fremd, funny money, heteroclite, hinky, homosexual, incongruitous, incongruous, infect, infected, invalidate, irregular, kooky, like that, mighty#Adverb, monstrous, morbid, morbific, morbose, nonstandard, other, out of the ordinary, outlandish, outré, quaint, queer, queer as Dick's hatband, queer as a clockwork orange, queer as a coot, queer as a nine bob note, queer as a three dollar bill, queerify, rare, selcouth, seld, similisexual, snide, strange, that way, trippy, unalike, uncanny, uncommon, unconventional, unearthly, unexpected, unhealthy, unlike, unreasonable, unusual, unwonted, weird, weirdsome, wicked#Adverb, yampy

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