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queerbaity

adj

Etymology

From queerbait (“to create homoerotic tension in a narrative without intention of realizing it”) + -y.

  1. derived from *bʰeyd-✻ — “to cleave, split, separate”
  2. derived from *baitō✻ — “that which is bitten, bait”
  3. derived from beita — “food, bait”
  4. inherited from bayte
  5. formed as queerbait — “queer + bait”
  6. suffixed as queerbaity — “queerbait + y”

Definitions

  1. Exhibiting or characterized by queerbaiting.

    • sherlock holmes and john watson except theyre lesbians and its not queerbaity
    • wangxian‘s true love and cql’s lack of queerbaiting set the bar so high I’ll never be satisfied with settling for subpar queerbaity content from shows like sherlock, spn, teen wolf, (etc) anymore.
    • Oh wow I had totally forgotten how extreeeeeemely queerbaity Sherlock was from the very first episode.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA