| 单词 | queer as a coot |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(as) queer as a coot P2. (as) queer as a coot (slang): conspicuously or flamboyantly homosexual; (also) conspicuously odd or peculiar. Cf. coot n.1 2b. ΚΠ 1949 K. Williams Diary 24 Feb. (1993) 39 Met this film agent, Brophy. Queer as a coot—film is to be made in Cocos Islands, obviously pornographic—I'm having nothing to do with it. 1961 N. Coward Diary 5 Mar. (2000) 466 I do wish that years ago Cyril had faced up to the fact that he was as queer as a coot. 1963 N.Y. Times 14 Apr. (Book Review section) 26/3 Mistress of the cliché, penny-pinching, queer as a coot, dirty as a blanket Indian, Mrs. Green reared her children in actual poverty. 1975 Times 9 July 14/2 Bombus fragrans..sprinkles himself..with attar of roses, and..is as queer as a coot. 2004 J. Gathorne-Hardy Half an Arch i. 20 A good-looking young man came towards him. Salisbury stopped and turned and followed the young man with his eyes. ‘Obviously queer,’ said Bob... ‘Queer as a coot.’ < as lemmas |
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