queer

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Homosexual.

   • “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.
2. 2

   Non-heterosexual or non-cisgender

   Non-heterosexual or non-cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.

3. 3

   Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not conform to…

   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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   1. 4

      Strange, odd, or different

      Strange, odd, or different; whimsical.

      • An old long-faced, long-bodied servant, gave a queer look
   2. 5

      Slightly unwell.

      • I felt queer after eating those shrimp.
      • "Well, I'm—I'm jiggered," said Peter, and his voice also sounded queer.
   3. 6

      Drunk.

   4. 7

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

      • 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.
   5. 8

      A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.

   6. 9

      A 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.
   7. 10

      Counterfeit money.

      • You're shoving the queer.
   8. 11

      To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.

      • I was a lot more apt to queer it than help it.
   9. 12

      To 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.
   10. 13

       To ridicule

       To ridicule; to banter; to rally.

   11. 14

       To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule

       To 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.
       • You'll queer yourself on Broadway—you'll never get another job.
   12. 15

       To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender,…

       To 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.
       • 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.
   13. 16

       To make a work more appealing or attractive to LGBT people, such as by not having strict…

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

   14. 17

       Queerly.

   15. 18

       Very, extremely.

       • 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!
   16. 19

       Of or relating to the culture surrounding queer people.

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