'Queer' definitions:
Definition of 'queer'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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, queer, rum, rummy, singular]
adjective
Homosexual or arousing homosexual desires [syn: gay, queer, homophile(a)]
noun
Offensive term for an openly homosexual man [syn: fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer, poof, poove, pouf]
verb
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, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk]
verb
Definition of 'Queer'
From: GCIDE
- 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.]
Definition of 'Queer'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Queer'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'queer'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnormal,
- absurd,
- AC-DC,
- 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