Queer \Queer\ (kw[=e]r), a. [Compar. Queerer (kw[=e]r"[~e]r);
superl. Queerest.] [G. quer cross, oblique, athwart (cf.
querkopf a queer fellow), OHG. twer, twerh, dwerah; akin to
D. dvars, AS, [thorn]weorh thwart, bent, twisted, Icel.
[thorn]verr thwart, transverse, Goth. [thorn]wa[`i]rhs angry,
and perh. to L. torqyere to twist, and E. through. Cf.
Torture, Through, Thwart, a.]
1. At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in
some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular;
strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or act. " A queer
look." --W. Irving.
[1913 Webster]
2. Mysterious; suspicious; questionable; as, a queer
transaction. [Colloq.]
[1913 Webster]
3. homosexual. [disparaging and offensive]
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Queer \Queer\, n.
1. Counterfeit money. [Slang]
[1913 Webster]
2. a homosexual. [disparaging and offensive]
[PJC]
To shove the queer, to put counterfeit money in
circulation. [Slang]
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Queer \Queer\ (kw[=e]r), v. t. [From Queer, a.]
1. To puzzle. [Prov. Eng. or Slang]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. To ridicule; to banter; to rally. [Slang]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3. To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to
throw a wet blanket on; to spoil. [Slang]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
queer
adj 1: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious
hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they
have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name";
"the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something
definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum
fellow"; "singular behavior" [syn: curious, funny,
odd, peculiar, rum, rummy, singular]
2: not as expected; "there was something fishy about the
accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely
queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were
suspect"; "suspicious behavior" [syn: fishy, funny, shady,
suspect, suspicious]
3: homosexual or arousing homosexual desires [syn: gay, homophile(a)]
n : offensive terms for an openly homosexual man [syn: fagot,
faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, poof,
poove, pouf]
v 1: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What
ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's
amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" [syn: thwart,
spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle,
bilk]
2: put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
[syn: expose, scupper, endanger, peril]
WordNet (r) 2.0
298 Moby Thesaurus words for "queer":
AC-DC, abnormal, absurd, affected, amphierotic, anomalous,
apocryphal, artificial, assumed, atypical, auntie, autoerotic,
bad check, bad money, ball up, base coin, bastard, batty,
bereft of reason, bi-guy, bisexed, bisexual, bizarre, bogus,
bogus money, bollix, bollix up, botch, brainsick, brummagem,
bugger, bugger up, bull dyke, bungle, butch, catamite, chicken,
colorable, colored, cook, counterfeit, counterfeit money,
counterfeited, crab, crackbrained, cracked, cramp, crank, crankish,
cranky, crazed, crazy, crimp, cripple, crotchety, curious, daft,
de-energize, debilitate, deluded, demented, deprived of reason,
deranged, destroy, deviant, deviative, different, disable,
disenable, disoriented, distorted, distraught, divergent, dizzy,
dotty, doubtful, drain, dressed up, droll, dubious, dummy, dyke,
eccentric, effeminate, embellished, embroidered, enfeeble, erratic,
ersatz, exceptional, exotic, extraordinary, factitious, fag,
faggot, faint, fairy, fake, faked, false money, falsified, feigned,
femme, fey, fictitious, fictive, fishy, flaky, flighty, flit,
forgery, foul up, freaked out, freakish, freaky, fricatrice, fruit,
funny, garbled, gay, giddy, green goods, gum, gum up, gunsel,
hallucinated, hamstring, hash up, hipped, homo, homoerotic,
homophile, homosexual, homosexualist, hors de combat, idiocratic,
idiosyncratic, illegitimate, imitation, inactivate, incapacitate,
incongruous, insane, invert, inverted, irrational, irregular,
junky, kibosh, kinky, kite, kooky, lame, laughable, lesbian,
light-headed, loco, loony, louse up, ludicrous, lunatic, mad,
maddened, maggoty, maim, make-believe, man-made, manic, mannish,
mar, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, mess up, mock,
moon-struck, muck up, muddle, muff, mysterious, nance, non compos,
non compos mentis, not all there, not right, nuts, nutty, odd,
oddball, of unsound mind, off, off the wall, offbeat, out,
outlandish, outre, pansy, passing strange, pathic, peculiar,
perverted, phony, pinchbeck, play hell with, play hob with, poorly,
potty, pretended, pseudo, psycho, punk, put, put-on, puzzling,
quaint, qualmish, qualmy, quasi, queasy, queen, queer the works,
questionable, quirky, reasonless, remarkable, ridiculous,
rubber check, ruin, sabotage, sapphic, sapphist, screw up,
screwball, screwy, self-styled, senseless, shady, sham, shoddy,
sick, simulated, singular, sink, snafu, snarl up, so-called,
soi-disant, spike, spoil, spurious, stark-mad, stark-staring mad,
strange, supposititious, suspect, suspicious, synthetic, tetched,
tin, tinsel, titivated, touched, transvestite, tribade,
tribadistic, twisted, unauthentic, unbalanced, uncanny, uncommon,
unconventional, unearthly, uneasy, unexampled, unfit, ungenuine,
unhinged, unnatural, unorthodox, unparalleled, unreal, unsane,
unsettled, unsound, unusual, unwell, vertiginous, wacky, wandering,
warped, weaken, weird, whimsical, wing, witless, wondrous strange,
wreck
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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