Find your perfect word!

Definition queer

Etymology

Attested since about 1510, from Scots, perhaps from Middle Low German (Brunswick dialect) queer (“oblique, off-center”) (also compare with German quer (“diagonally”)), from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *terk?- (“to turn, twist, wind”). Compare Latin torqueo. Related to thwart.

Adjective

queer (comparative queerer, superlative queerest)

1. (dated) Weird, odd or different; whimsical. [from 16th c.]
2. (Britain, informal, dated) Slightly unwell (mainly in to feel queer). [from 18th c.]
3. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Homosexual. [from 19th c.]
4. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Not heterosexual: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, etc.
5. (broadly) Pertaining to sexual behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual norms, assumptions etc. [from 20th c.]

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. (definite, with "the", informal, archaic) Counterfeit money.

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.
2. (Britain, dialectal, dated) To puzzle.
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.

Adverb

queer (comparative more queer, superlative most queer)

1. Queerly.

Results 353 Words with the letters QUEER

You can also try words with the phrase QUEER, words starting with the letters QUEER, or words ending in the letters QUEER.

Favorites Searches

Words… ending with q, starting with q, starting with qa, starting with qo, with two letters, starting with x, starting with j, ending with j,

Some random searches: Words with the letters HEFSJ, Words with the letters URBZ, Words with the letters VGA, Words with the letters JYAE,