queer

• “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...
• This is a one-shot thing we got goin’ on here. […] You know I ain’t queer. - 2005, Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana, directed by Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain, spoken by Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger):

Synonyms: homophile homosexual like that queer similisexual that way

• 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? - 1999, Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, Routledge, published 2002,...
• Historically, this has meant that queer sexuality—defined here not literally or only as same-gender desire but as "the sex of others," meaning any sexuality outside the bounds of the reproductive, white, and genitally...

• An old long-faced, long-bodied servant, gave a queer look - 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac]...
• “I wish I hadn’t cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. “I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However,...
• One thing has struck me as a bit queer. During my two terms of office the whole Democratic press, and the morbidly honest and 'reformatory' portion of the Republican press, thought it horrible to keep U.S. troops...

Synonyms: aberrant abnormal alien anomalous as queer as Dick's hatband bizarre booky curious deviant discrepant eerie eldritch errant exceptional extraordinary fey forby freak freakish freaky fremd funny heteroclite hinky

• I felt queer after eating those shrimp.
• Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. … When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your...
• "Well, I'm—I'm jiggered," said Peter, and his voice also sounded queer. - 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia:

Synonyms: diseased disease-ridden infect infected morbid morbific morbose unhealthy

• Twas a queer bachram in the pub that night!
• Ah, but she was the queer old skeowsha anyhow, Anna Livia, trinkettoes!” - 1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake:
• 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! - 1988, Billy Roche, A Handful of Stars, act I, pages 6, 14:

Synonyms: mighty wicked

• Now that the first flush of this catastrophe and grief is passed, I write to tell you that it is a judgement on the whole lot of you. Montgomerys, The Snob Queers like [the Earl of] Rosebery & certainly Christian...
• [...] fourteen young men were invited [...] with the premise that they would have the opportunity of meeting some of the prominent 'queers,' [...] and the further attraction that some 'chickens' as the new recruits in...
• 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. - 1940...

• 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. - 2014, Inga Muscio, Autobiography...

• You're shoving the queer. - 1913, Rex Stout, Her Forbidden Knight, Carroll & Graf, published 1997, →ISBN, page 133:

Synonyms: funny money snide

• I was a lot more apt to queer it than help it. - 1955, Rex Stout, "When a Man Murders...", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, page 78

Synonyms: invalidate thwart compromise

• "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...
• "Where do you come from?" Stanley queered. - 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud; A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter V,...

• "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." - 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of...
• Well, then I got buried—shell dropped, and the dug-out caved in—and that queered me. They sent me home. - 1926, D. H. Lawrence, “Glad Ghosts”, in The Complete Short Stories, volume 3, Penguin, published 1977, page 678:
• You'll queer yourself on Broadway—you'll never get another job. - 1927, 1:24:57 from the start, intertitle, in The Jazz Singer:

• 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. - 2003,...
• Jonathan Goldberg further explores the implications of queering history in his essay in the same volume. - 2006, Carla Freccero, Queer/Early/Modern, page 80:
• 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. - 2013, Mark Davidson,...

Synonyms: queerify