英语词汇“queer”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

queer

/kwɪə

adjective

1Strange; odd: she had a queer feeling that they were being watched...

Something in Dana's head felt weird, but not any stranger than the queer feeling in her heart.
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.
The only strange thing was a queer kind of mound, in a glade by the bank of a stream.

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

1.1 [predicative] British informal, dated Slightly ill: 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

2 informal, often offensive (Of a person) homosexual.

2.1Denoting 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 informal, offensive

A homosexual man.

verb [with object] informal

Spoil or ruin (an agreement, event, or situation): Reg didn’t want someone meddling and queering the deal at the last minute...

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.
My dismount, however, would have queered my chances for even the bronze.
And it's the families that could wind up queering this deal.

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

Usage

The 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.

Phrases

in Queer Street

queer fish

queer someone's pitch

Derivatives

queerish

/ˈkwɪərɪʃ/ adjective ...

Queer and queerish films have come increasingly de rigueur in the modern cinema landscape, with a subsequent broadening of the types of queers portrayed.
‘I am just off to India …’, EM Forster wrote to his publisher in a letter disclosed for the first time yesterday, ‘I expect to have an interesting time and penetrate into queerish places.’
The ex-senator as full of queerish ideas as usual.

queerly

/ˈkwɪəli

/ adverb ...

Although his tone was practical I thought I could catch an undernote of dismay queerly mixed with relief.
It was as if Nabokov had glimpsed the legions of Barthesans (rhymes with partisans) coming around some queerly straightened bend in time, and liked what he saw.
The order forbade them from ‘approving of’ or ‘permitting’ a sick-out, queerly assuming that they might have the power to prevent one.

queerness

/ˈkwɪənəs/ noun ...

William Blackwood and Sons, publishers of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, had been stomaching queerness and Scotchness - and much else besides - for the best part of a century.
Society would be more interested in studying the artistic and literary tradition associated with queerness than it would be in researching the causes and effects of homosexuality.
Widespread violence meeting assertions of queerness and women's rights indicate the fundamental challenges that these movements embody.

Origin

Early 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’.

单词	queer
释义	queer /kwɪə / adjective 1Strange; odd: she had a queer feeling that they were being watched... Something in Dana's head felt weird, but not any stranger than the queer feeling in her heart. 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. The only strange thing was a queer kind of mound, in a glade by the bank of a stream. 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 1.1 [predicative] British informal, dated Slightly ill: 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 2 informal, often offensive (Of a person) homosexual. 2.1Denoting 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 informal, offensive A homosexual man. verb [with object] informal Spoil or ruin (an agreement, event, or situation): Reg didn’t want someone meddling and queering the deal at the last minute... 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. My dismount, however, would have queered my chances for even the bronze. And it's the families that could wind up queering this deal. 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 Usage The 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. Phrases in Queer Street queer fish queer someone's pitch Derivatives queerish /ˈkwɪərɪʃ/ adjective ... Queer and queerish films have come increasingly de rigueur in the modern cinema landscape, with a subsequent broadening of the types of queers portrayed. ‘I am just off to India …’, EM Forster wrote to his publisher in a letter disclosed for the first time yesterday, ‘I expect to have an interesting time and penetrate into queerish places.’ The ex-senator as full of queerish ideas as usual. queerly /ˈkwɪəli / adverb ... Although his tone was practical I thought I could catch an undernote of dismay queerly mixed with relief. It was as if Nabokov had glimpsed the legions of Barthesans (rhymes with partisans) coming around some queerly straightened bend in time, and liked what he saw. The order forbade them from ‘approving of’ or ‘permitting’ a sick-out, queerly assuming that they might have the power to prevent one. queerness /ˈkwɪənəs/ noun ... William Blackwood and Sons, publishers of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, had been stomaching queerness and Scotchness - and much else besides - for the best part of a century. Society would be more interested in studying the artistic and literary tradition associated with queerness than it would be in researching the causes and effects of homosexuality. Widespread violence meeting assertions of queerness and women's rights indicate the fundamental challenges that these movements embody. Origin Early 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’. Rhymes adhere, 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
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queerish

queerly

queerness

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