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queerhood

noun

Etymology

From queer + -hood.

  1. derived from *terkʷ-✻ — “to turn, twist, wind”
  2. derived from *þwerhaz✻
  3. derived from *þwerh✻
  4. derived from thwerh
  5. suffixed as queerhood — “queer + hood”

Definitions

  1. The state or condition of being queer

    The state or condition of being queer; queerness

    • It's not that I'm proud of how I found out or that I think that closeted dildoes alone are enough to indict him for closeted queerhood. There's more to it, and that can only be revealed in the telling of the whole story.
    • I stand naked inside an enormous shell, my long hair cascading modestly over my crack. Like I was saying, it seems to me that most folks must range somewhere between knee-jerk queerhood of Dell and the in-your-face hetero world of Zorn.
    • There is something truly dangerous in this global response to queerhood, something that should lead us towards a more global co-operation in our attempts to build a sexual politics and fight back against homophobia.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for queerhood. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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