queer
Betekenis (Engels)
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- Weird, odd, or different; whimsical.
- (informal) Slightly unwell (mainly in "to feel queer").
- (slang) Drunk.
- (colloquial) Homosexual.
- (colloquial) Non-heterosexual or non-cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
- Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual or cisgender norms, assumptions etc.
Concepten
vreemdsoortig
poepstamper
luimig
moppig
reetkever
ruggentuffer
onlekker
Synoniemen
be strange
banana crammer
witty
effeminate man
very strange
be odd
lesbien
shirtlifter
different from others
weird thing
faget
Frequentie
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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