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Definition of queer in English: queeradjective kwɪəkwɪr 1Strange; odd. 奇怪的，奇异的；古怪的，异常的 she had a queer feeling that they were being watched 她奇怪地感到她们正受到监视。 Example sentencesExamples - It enabled Guy to better understand the strange world of the Middle Sentients, the queer creatures who moved about the parallel world.
- There is a curious, not to say queer paradox here, though.
- A queer man he was, with a right eye that was bigger than his left - and it twitched.
- This is a strange, queer, odd bunch - an odd assortment.
- He said this strangely, as if it was a queer thing to be up at this hour.
- I invite you to relive this most extraordinary of expeditions with me as we explore the strange and queer lands of England, Scotland, and the airport in Germany.
- Now why is the right foot a weird blue and left foot a queer red?
- The only strange thing was a queer kind of mound, in a glade by the bank of a stream.
- On the way home he wonders why he must be so queer and strange and spoil things.
- So there were many types of guppies, tetra and this queer tortoise with a spout for mouth - really strange looking.
- It was a queer remark, mediaeval in its construction, but searing in its heat.
- To me it was much more to do with irony, or some weird twisted queer sense of humour.
- I never thought of myself as having any morals but it seems a few firmly held convictions are lurking in there somewhere, doing queer things to my stomach when someone questions their validity.
- ‘He was always a queer man but that winter he was queerer than ever,’ remembered Black Elk.
- A queer assortment, though such combinations are not unusual in the rural areas.
- Something in Dana's head felt weird, but not any stranger than the queer feeling in her heart.
- With a queer uncanny innocence, he seems always to have taken this one thing for granted.
- Dr. Strange is known for being the master of the queer and unusual dark arts of magic.
- Some local people seem not to exactly understand Coleman's exploits that may radiate a queer mystery.
- The rest of the group will be wearing masks called Zevala, dedicated to eccentric and queer animals from mythology.
Synonyms odd, strange, unusual, funny, peculiar, curious, bizarre, weird, outlandish, eccentric, unconventional, unorthodox, uncanny, unexpected, unfamiliar, abnormal, anomalous, atypical, untypical, different, out of the ordinary, out of the way, extraordinary, remarkable, puzzling, mystifying, mysterious, perplexing, baffling, unaccountable, incongruous, uncommon, irregular, outré, offbeat, singular, deviant, aberrant, freak, freakish suspicious, dubious, questionable eerie, unnatural Scottish unco informal fishy, creepy, spooky, freaky British informal rum North American informal off the wall bizarro suspicious, suspect, irregular, questionable, dubious, doubtful, funny, mysterious, murky, dark, criminal, dishonest, corrupt, nefarious, crafty, deceitful, shifty, underhand, dishonourable, unscrupulous, unprincipled, fraudulent, illegal, unlawful informal fishy, shady, bent - 1.1British dated, informal predicative Slightly ill.
〈英，非正式，旧〉略感不适的 he was feeling rather queer Synonyms ill, unwell, poorly, bad, out of sorts, indisposed, not oneself, sick, queasy, nauseous, nauseated, peaky, liverish, green about the gills, run down, washed out, faint, dizzy, giddy British off, off colour informal under the weather, below par, not up to par, funny, peculiar, rough, lousy, rotten, awful, terrible, dreadful British informal grotty, ropy Scottish informal wabbit, peely-wally Australian/New Zealand informal crook vulgar slang crappy dated seedy rare peaked, peakish
2offensive, informal (of a person) homosexual. 〈非正式，冒犯〉（男子）同性恋的 Synonyms gay, lesbian, sapphic, lesbigay homosexual, gay, lesbian, sapphic - 2.1 Denoting or relating to a sexual or gender identity that does not correspond to established ideas of sexuality and gender, especially heterosexual norms.
queer geek culture has featured gay themes since the 1980s nightclubs have traditionally been a space where queer people, trans women in particular, can explore gender with relative safety
noun kwɪəkwɪr offensive, informal A homosexual man. 〈非正式，冒犯〉同性恋男子 Synonyms gay, lesbian, gay person, lesbigay homosexual, gay, lesbian
verb kwɪəkwɪr [with object]informal Spoil or ruin (an agreement, event, or situation) 〈非正式〉毁坏，搞糟（协议、事件、局面） Reg didn't want someone meddling and queering the deal at the last minute 雷吉不想有人在最后时刻插上一脚，毁了这桩交易。 Example sentencesExamples - Even so, the scene is in no need of being further queered by Brian Kulick, the director of the New York Shakespeare Festival's current Central Park revival.
- The two major parties use the tyranny of their majority to put their own people - their own stooges - on the commission, to make sure that they queer the pitch in their own favour.
- As with any partnering strategy the question is how deep does the relationship run and how do the companies stop queering each other's pitch.
- My dismount, however, would have queered my chances for even the bronze.
- Aware, in his mid-forties, that all the time off for cricket had queered his prospects for mainstream advancement at the bank, Alan seized the new career opportunity.
- Families in both of these control most of the stock and the families could end up queering this deal.
- And it's the families that could wind up queering this deal.
- An infatuation with statistics impels investigators to queer the pitch of an investigation and resort to shortcut methods to solve a crime somehow.
- With Glasgow Accies and Lenzie queering the pitch, promotion would always have been hard this year - next year Cumnock hope to be among the favourites.
- It's for a project which is in its early stages, and is confidential, so posting details could queer the pitch somewhat, as it were.
- They suspected that the presidential adviser was secretly trying to queer the lawsuit, which had been undertaken by a Democratic attorney general.
- He knew killing Vida would queer his deal with Zoltan and leave him worse off than before.
- The pitch is further queered by the weakness of the US dollar, which makes Ireland a far more expensive travel destination for Americans.
- Any unwelcome associations between this and the firm's frequent difficulties in getting its software delivered on time were obviously not enough to queer the deal.
- Since a viewer watching this collection would have spent three previous episodes of tedium hearing about the mystery women who queered things between Slaughter and the DEA, it's nice to have the non-entity fleshed out.
- In the case of the police shooting, however, a running commentary on the investigation should be mandatory considering it now looks like the IPCC may be queering its own investigation.
- Advanced Micro Devices has again attempted to queer Intel's developer forum pitch by using an intercept and kill strategy.
- The ‘beer orders’ of 1989, which forced brewers to offload their vast tied estates, further queered the brewers' pitch.
- This year's general election saw the media do several things which queered the pitch of the election debate.
- The financial services industry has to a large extent queered its own pitch.
Synonyms spoil, damage, impair, harm, be detrimental to, mar, wreck, destroy, devastate, smash, shatter, scupper, scotch, disrupt, undo, thwart, hinder, foil, ruin, blight, injure, cripple, hurt, jeopardize, endanger, imperil, threaten, put at risk, undermine, prejudice, be prejudicial to, be disadvantageous to, play havoc with, be deleterious to, compromise informal botch, blow, put the kibosh on
UsageThe word queer was first used to mean ‘homosexual’ in the late 19th century; when used by heterosexual people, it was originally an aggressively derogatory term. By the late 1980s, however, some gay people began to deliberately use the word queer in place of gay or homosexual, in an attempt, by using the word positively, to deprive it of its negative power. Queer also came to have broader connotations, relating not only to homosexuality but to any sexual orientation or gender identity not corresponding to heterosexual norms. The neutral use of queer is now well established and widely used, especially as an adjective or noun modifier, and exists alongside the derogatory usage Phrasesdated, informal In difficulty, typically by being in debt. 〈英，非正式，旧〉（尤指因负债而）陷入困境 Synonyms impoverished, poor, penniless, penurious, in penury, indigent, insolvent, impecunious, moneyless, hard up, poverty-stricken, needy, in need, in want, destitute
informal A person whose behaviour seems strange or unusual. they have invariably chosen the queer fish in preference to the more or less recognizable member of the human race Example sentencesExamples - The musical is a queer fish, but youth theatre thrives on such challenges.
Synonyms eccentric, oddity, odd fellow, unorthodox person, character, individualist, individual, free spirit, misfit
informal Spoil someone's plans or chances of doing something, especially secretly or maliciously. 〈英〉（尤指暗中或不怀好意地）破坏某人的计划，使某人失去机会 Example sentencesExamples - But then America and Europe queered the pitch, like they always do.
- This is the time of the year, when commercial establishments queer their pitch for selling their products.
- It would seem likely that there is at least an oral agreement that Corel will not start any more such lawsuits to queer Microsoft 's pitch in the corporate marketplace.
- The financial services industry has to a large extent queered its own pitch.
- Nor did he want to queer his pitch with the Labour leadership, when he decided to press forward with his avowed intention to seek re-entry to the party at a later date.
- But with this marriage alliance queering the pitch as far as India is concerned, it could be a long time before he appears on Indian TV screens again.
Synonyms ruin, wreck, destroy, upset, undo, mess up, make a mess of, dash, sabotage, scupper, scotch, torpedo, blast, vitiate
OriginEarly 16th century: considered to be from German quer 'oblique, perverse', but the origin is doubtful. There is some doubt as to the origin of queer, but it may come from German quer ‘oblique, perverse’. ‘Eccentric’ and ‘strange’ were early senses, though there was also the notion ‘of questionable character, dubious’. The meaning ‘unwell, ill’ dates from the late 18th century, although it is often avoided now because of the potential confusion with the derogatory sense ‘homosexual’, recorded from the late 19th century. A rather old-fashioned way of saying that someone is in difficulty, especially by being in debt, is to say that they are in Queer Street. This was an imaginary street where people in difficulties were supposed to live. Since the early 19th century the phrase has suggested various kinds of misfortune, though mainly financial difficulty: ‘Queer Street is full of lodgers just at present’ (Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, 1865). To queer someone's pitch is to spoil their chances of doing something, especially secretly or maliciously. This started out as 19th-century slang. The ‘pitch’ in question was probably the spot where street performers stationed themselves or the site of a market trader's stall. There's nowt so queer as folk is first recorded in 1905, though it is described as an ‘old saying’. Nowt is a Northern English variant of nought, ‘nothing’.
Rhymesadhere, Agadir, Anglosphere, appear, arrear, auctioneer, austere, balladeer, bandolier, Bashkir, beer, besmear, bier, blear, bombardier, brigadier, buccaneer, cameleer, career, cashier, cavalier, chandelier, charioteer, cheer, chevalier, chiffonier, clavier, clear, Coetzee, cohere, commandeer, conventioneer, Cordelier, corsetière, Crimea, dear, deer, diarrhoea (US diarrhea), domineer, Dorothea, drear, ear, electioneer, emir, endear, engineer, fear, fleer, Freer, fusilier, gadgeteer, Galatea, gazetteer, gear, gondolier, gonorrhoea (US gonorrhea), Greer, grenadier, hand-rear, hear, here, Hosea, idea, interfere, Izmir, jeer, Judaea, Kashmir, Keir, kir, Korea, Lear, leer, Maria, marketeer, Medea, Meir, Melilla, mere, Mia, Mir, mishear, mountaineer, muleteer, musketeer, mutineer, near, orienteer, pamphleteer, panacea, paneer, peer, persevere, pier, Pierre, pioneer, pistoleer, privateer, profiteer, puppeteer, racketeer, ratafia, rear, revere, rhea, rocketeer, Sapir, scrutineer, sear, seer, sere, severe, Shamir, shear, sheer, sincere, smear, sneer, sonneteer, souvenir, spear, sphere, steer, stere, summiteer, Tangier, tear, tier, Trier, Tyr, veer, veneer, Vere, Vermeer, vizier, volunteer, Wear, weir, we're, year, Zaïre Definition of queer in US English: queeradjectivekwɪrkwir 1Strange; odd. 奇怪的，奇异的；古怪的，异常的 she had a queer feeling that they were being watched 她奇怪地感到她们正受到监视。 Example sentencesExamples - This is a strange, queer, odd bunch - an odd assortment.
- ‘He was always a queer man but that winter he was queerer than ever,’ remembered Black Elk.
- It enabled Guy to better understand the strange world of the Middle Sentients, the queer creatures who moved about the parallel world.
- I never thought of myself as having any morals but it seems a few firmly held convictions are lurking in there somewhere, doing queer things to my stomach when someone questions their validity.
- The only strange thing was a queer kind of mound, in a glade by the bank of a stream.
- Now why is the right foot a weird blue and left foot a queer red?
- A queer assortment, though such combinations are not unusual in the rural areas.
- It was a queer remark, mediaeval in its construction, but searing in its heat.
- On the way home he wonders why he must be so queer and strange and spoil things.
- With a queer uncanny innocence, he seems always to have taken this one thing for granted.
- A queer man he was, with a right eye that was bigger than his left - and it twitched.
- The rest of the group will be wearing masks called Zevala, dedicated to eccentric and queer animals from mythology.
- There is a curious, not to say queer paradox here, though.
- I invite you to relive this most extraordinary of expeditions with me as we explore the strange and queer lands of England, Scotland, and the airport in Germany.
- Some local people seem not to exactly understand Coleman's exploits that may radiate a queer mystery.
- He said this strangely, as if it was a queer thing to be up at this hour.
- Something in Dana's head felt weird, but not any stranger than the queer feeling in her heart.
- Dr. Strange is known for being the master of the queer and unusual dark arts of magic.
- To me it was much more to do with irony, or some weird twisted queer sense of humour.
- So there were many types of guppies, tetra and this queer tortoise with a spout for mouth - really strange looking.
Synonyms odd, strange, unusual, funny, peculiar, curious, bizarre, weird, outlandish, eccentric, unconventional, unorthodox, uncanny, unexpected, unfamiliar, abnormal, anomalous, atypical, untypical, different, out of the ordinary, out of the way, extraordinary, remarkable, puzzling, mystifying, mysterious, perplexing, baffling, unaccountable, incongruous, uncommon, irregular, outré, offbeat, singular, deviant, aberrant, freak, freakish suspicious, suspect, irregular, questionable, dubious, doubtful, funny, mysterious, murky, dark, criminal, dishonest, corrupt, nefarious, crafty, deceitful, shifty, underhand, dishonourable, unscrupulous, unprincipled, fraudulent, illegal, unlawful - 1.1British dated, informal predicative Slightly ill.
〈英，非正式，旧〉略感不适的 Synonyms ill, unwell, poorly, bad, out of sorts, indisposed, not oneself, sick, queasy, nauseous, nauseated, peaky, liverish, green about the gills, run down, washed out, faint, dizzy, giddy
2offensive, informal (of a person) homosexual. 〈非正式，冒犯〉（男子）同性恋的 Synonyms gay, lesbian, sapphic, lesbigay homosexual, gay, lesbian, sapphic - 2.1 Denoting or relating to a sexual or gender identity that does not correspond to established ideas of sexuality and gender, especially heterosexual norms.
queer geek culture has featured gay themes since the 1980s nightclubs have traditionally been a space where queer people, trans women in particular, can explore gender with relative safety
nounkwɪrkwir offensive, informal A homosexual man. 〈非正式，冒犯〉同性恋男子 Synonyms gay, lesbian, gay person, lesbigay homosexual, gay, lesbian
verbkwɪrkwir [with object]informal Spoil or ruin (an agreement, event, or situation) 〈非正式〉毁坏，搞糟（协议、事件、局面） Reg didn't want someone meddling and queering the deal at the last minute 雷吉不想有人在最后时刻插上一脚，毁了这桩交易。 Example sentencesExamples - My dismount, however, would have queered my chances for even the bronze.
- With Glasgow Accies and Lenzie queering the pitch, promotion would always have been hard this year - next year Cumnock hope to be among the favourites.
- Aware, in his mid-forties, that all the time off for cricket had queered his prospects for mainstream advancement at the bank, Alan seized the new career opportunity.
- Even so, the scene is in no need of being further queered by Brian Kulick, the director of the New York Shakespeare Festival's current Central Park revival.
- As with any partnering strategy the question is how deep does the relationship run and how do the companies stop queering each other's pitch.
- It's for a project which is in its early stages, and is confidential, so posting details could queer the pitch somewhat, as it were.
- Advanced Micro Devices has again attempted to queer Intel's developer forum pitch by using an intercept and kill strategy.
- Since a viewer watching this collection would have spent three previous episodes of tedium hearing about the mystery women who queered things between Slaughter and the DEA, it's nice to have the non-entity fleshed out.
- The financial services industry has to a large extent queered its own pitch.
- The ‘beer orders’ of 1989, which forced brewers to offload their vast tied estates, further queered the brewers' pitch.
- They suspected that the presidential adviser was secretly trying to queer the lawsuit, which had been undertaken by a Democratic attorney general.
- And it's the families that could wind up queering this deal.
- Any unwelcome associations between this and the firm's frequent difficulties in getting its software delivered on time were obviously not enough to queer the deal.
- The pitch is further queered by the weakness of the US dollar, which makes Ireland a far more expensive travel destination for Americans.
- In the case of the police shooting, however, a running commentary on the investigation should be mandatory considering it now looks like the IPCC may be queering its own investigation.
- Families in both of these control most of the stock and the families could end up queering this deal.
- He knew killing Vida would queer his deal with Zoltan and leave him worse off than before.
- An infatuation with statistics impels investigators to queer the pitch of an investigation and resort to shortcut methods to solve a crime somehow.
- The two major parties use the tyranny of their majority to put their own people - their own stooges - on the commission, to make sure that they queer the pitch in their own favour.
- This year's general election saw the media do several things which queered the pitch of the election debate.
Synonyms spoil, damage, impair, harm, be detrimental to, mar, wreck, destroy, devastate, smash, shatter, scupper, scotch, disrupt, undo, thwart, hinder, foil, ruin, blight, injure, cripple, hurt, jeopardize, endanger, imperil, threaten, put at risk, undermine, prejudice, be prejudicial to, be disadvantageous to, play havoc with, be deleterious to, compromise
UsageThe word queer was first used to mean ‘homosexual’ in the late 19th century; when used by heterosexual people, it was originally an aggressively derogatory term. By the late 1980s, however, some gay people began to deliberately use the word queer in place of gay or homosexual, in an attempt, by using the word positively, to deprive it of its negative power. Queer also came to have broader connotations, relating not only to homosexuality but to any sexual orientation or gender identity not corresponding to heterosexual norms. The neutral use of queer is now well established and widely used, especially as an adjective or modifier, and exists alongside the derogatory usage OriginEarly 16th century: considered to be from German quer ‘oblique, perverse’, but the origin is doubtful. |