queer

Betekenis (Engels)

Synoniemen

be strange

banana crammer

witty

effeminate man

very strange

be odd

lesbien

shirtlifter

different from others

weird thing

faget

Frequentie

C1
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/kwɪɹ/
Etymologie (Engels)

In summary

Attested since about 1510, at first in Scots. Usually taken to be from Middle Low German (Brunswick dialect) queer (“oblique, off-center”) or the related German quer (“diagonal”), from Old Saxon thwerh, from Proto-West Germanic *þwerh, from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn, twist, wind”); compare Latin torqueō, and see more at thwart. The OED argues against this due to the semantic differences and the date at which the word appears in Scots. Began to be used to describe gay people in the late 1800s, see usage notes for more.

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