queerer

comparative form of queer: more queer.

Adjective

  1. comparative form of queer: more queer.
    • When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like...
    • I know that my life is different since I'm a bisexual, a butch, and a pervert. […] And even when I found a queer community, I discovered I was queerer than I thought. - 1995, Robin Sweeney, “Too Butch to Be Bi (or You...

Origin

Etymology tree English queer English -er English queerer From queer (adjective) + -er.

Noun

  1. One who queers something.
    • The large crop of independents, emerging, at all events, as queerers of the democratic pitch, are evidence of the deeper cuts […] - 1967, Syed Mohammad Naqavi, Democracy in India:
    • The people spoke and grew queerer “as the Spirit gave them ability” (Acts 2:4). God is the Queer doing the queering. God is the one pulling the tongues out of the people. God is the great queerer of every moment. -...

Origin

Etymology tree English queer Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English queerer From queer (verb) + -er.

Forms

queerers