Definizione monolingua

queer

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

1. To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.
   • 1955, Rex Stout, ""When a Man Murders..."", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 78:

     I was a lot more apt to queer it than help it.

2. To reevaluate or reinterpret a work with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.

queer (plural queers)

1. (colloquial) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.
2. (colloquial) A person of atypical sexuality or sexual identity.
3. (colloquial, vulgar, derogatory) General term of abuse, casting aspersions on targets sexuality; compare gay.
4. (definite, the queer, informal, dated or obsolete) Counterfeit money.
   • 1913, Rex Stout, Her Forbidden Knight, 1997 Carroll & Graf edition, ISBN 0786704446, page 133:

     Youre shoving the queer.

queer (comparative queerer, superlative queerest)

1. (somewhat old-fashioned) weird, odd or different.
   • 1865, Lewis Carroll, Alices Adventures in Wonderland

     “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, everything is queer to-day.”

2. (somewhat old-fashioned) slightly unwell (mainly in to feel queer).
3. (slang) homosexual.
4. (slang) having to do with homosexuality, bisexuality, transgenderism etc.

queer (comparative more queer, superlative most queer)

1. queerly

Definizione dizionario queer

	strano
	weird, odd, different

	bizzarro
	weird, odd, different

	finocchio
	slang: homosexual

	gay
	slang: homosexual

	checca
	slang: homosexual

	male
	slightly unwell

bizzaro

comico

curioso

divertente

dubbio

eccentrico

frocio

indisposto

omosessuale

originale

rovinare

strambo

straordinario

stravagante

un po’ male

Altri significati:

To hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of.

(colloquial) A person of atypical sexuality or sexual identity.

(slang) having to do with homosexuality, bisexuality, transgenderism etc.

(somewhat old-fashioned) weird, odd or different.

(definite, the queer , informal, dated or obsolete) Counterfeit money.

slang: having to do with homosexuality, etc.

(slang) homosexual.

queerly

(colloquial) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.

(colloquial, vulgar, derogatory) General term of abuse, casting aspersions on target's sexuality; compare gay.

(somewhat old-fashioned) slightly unwell (mainly in to feel queer).

To reevaluate or reinterpret a work with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.

slang: person of atypical sexuality or sexual identity

To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.